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NATURAL THERAPEUTICS, VOL. Vi 



IRIDIAGNOSIS 

AND OTHER 

DIAGNOSTIC METHODS 

HENRY LINDLAHR, M. D. 



FIRST EDITION 



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CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

Frontispiece — Chart of Iris. 

Color Plate 114 

I. Iridology 5 

II. Anatomy of the Iris 16 

III. Explanation of the Key to Iridology 22 

IV. A Uniform Division and Classification of Disease 26 

V. Density of the Iris 41 

VI. Nerve Rings 56 

VII. The Scurf Rim 65 

VIII. Itch or Psora Spots in the Iris 74 

IX. Comparison of Fermentation to Inflammation 90 

X. Signs of Inorganic Minerals in the Iris Ill 

XL Signs of Poisons in the Eye 127 

XII. Mercury, Hydrargyrum or Quicksilver 136 

XIII. Cinchona — Quinin 156 

XIV. Iodin 169 

XV. Lead 178 

XVI. Arsenic 181 

XVII. Bromids 187 

XVIII. Coal Tar Products 198 

XIX. Miscellaneous Drugs 202 

XX. Diseases of the Vital Organs — Signs in Iris 215 

XXI. Chronic Diseases — Their Signs in Iris 235 

XXII. The Ductless Glands and Their Secretions 251 

XXIII. Diseases of Ductless Glands — Signs in Iris 263 

XXIV. Basic Diagnosis 278 



CHAPTER I 
IRIDOLOGY 

Correct diagnosis is the first essential to rational treat- 
ment. Every honest physician admits that the old school 
methods of diagnosis are, to say the least, unsatisfactory 
and uncertain, especially in ascertaining the underlying 
causes of disease. 

Therefore we should welcome any and all methods of 
diagnosis which throw more light on the causes and the 
nature of disease conditions in the human organism. 

Two valuable additions to diagnostic science are now 
offered to us in Spinal Analysis and in the Diagnosis from 
the Iris of the Eye. 

Spinal analysis furnishes valuable information concern- 
ing the connection between disease conditions and mis- 
placements of vertebrae and other bony structures, con- 
tractions or abnormal relaxation of connective tissues, and 
inflammation of nerves and nerve centers. 

Men of high standing in the profession have many times 
admitted the uncertainty of medical diagnosis, but never 
has more enlightening information on this subject been 
furnished than by Dr. Cabot of Harvard University, one 
of the foremost diagnosticians in this country, and author 
of a standard work on diagnosis. 

In a recent address before the American Medical Asso- 
ciation he stated that postmortem examinations of one 
thousand cases which he had conducted disclosed the fact 
that the antemortem diagnoses were correct in only fifty- 
three percent of these cases. The following table com- 

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6 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

piled by Dr. Cabot gives the nature of the various diseases 
and the exact percentage of correct diagnoses in each : 

Disease Percent 

Diabetes Mellitus 95 

Typhoid 92 

Aortic Regurg 84 

Cancer of the Colon 74 

Lobar Pneumonia 74 

Chr. Glomeruloneph 74 

Cerebral Tumor 72f 

Tb. Meningitis 72 

Gastric Cancer 72 

Mitral Stenosis 69 

Brain Hemorrhage 67 

Septic Meningitis 64 

Aortic Stenosis 61 

Phthisis, acute 59 

Miliary Tb , . 52 

Chronic Interst. Neph 50 

Thoracic Aneurism 50 

Hepatic Cirrhosis 39 

Acute Endocard 39 

Peptic Ulcer 36 

Suppurative Neph 35 

Renal Tb 33J 

Bronchopneumonia 33 

Vertebral Tb 23 

Chron. Myocarditis 22 

Hepatic Abscess 20 

Ac. Pericarditis 20 

Ac. Nephritis 16 

Dr. Cabot's candid report surely gives food for serious 
thought. If his colleagues on the staff of the Massachu- 



IRIDOLOGY 7 

setts General Hospital, with excellent scientific equipment 
at their command, failed to render a correct diagnosis in 
about fifty per cent of one thousand cases, what may be 
expected of the average less skilled physician and sur- 
geon in general practice? 

Correct prescription, according to allopathic standards, 
can be based only on correct diagnosis. The old school 
of medicine recognizes hundreds of different diseases, 
each one an entity by itself arising from specific causes — 
mostly disease germs. From this it follows that each 
specific disease must be treated by specific drugs, vaccines, 
serums and antitoxins, or by specially devised opera- 
tions. 

It is evident that the wrong remedy applied in a given 
case will not only prove useless, but may cause serious in- 
jury; yet if fifty per cent of all the diagnoses rendered 
in our best equipped hospitals are erroneous, how can the 
doctors apply the right remedy? Will somebody please 
explain ? 

Compare with this extremely dangerous guess work the 
safe and sane methods of Natural Therapeutics. Per- 
fectly harmless in themselves, w^hen applied with a modi- 
cum of common sense they tend to correct in any case the 
three primary manifestations of disease, and must there- 
fore produce satisfactory results no matter what the diag- 
nosis. This, I have fully explained in Chapter XX, Vol. 
I, of this series. While the allopathic physician must post- 
pone the administration of his specific remedies until he 
gets ready to make a guess — first at the nature of the dis- 
ease, and then at the indicated remedy — the practitioner 
of Natural Therapeutics applies his natural remedies with 
absolute safety, and assurance of success if that is possible 
in the nature of the case, from the first appearance of 
abnormal symptoms. Thereby he frequently cures the 
disease before his allopathic colleague would get ready to 



8 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

treat it. In many cases medical indecision and procrasti- 
nation allows the disease processes to make such headway 
that they cannot be arrested by any means. 

Dr. Cabot is not the only allopathic physician who ad- 
mits an appalling discrepancy between clinical findings 
and the revelations of the postmortem examinations. Ac- 
cording to a recently published report of a committee 
appointed to investigate New York hospitals, the autop- 
sies of the famous Bellevue Hospital prove that out of 
every hundred diagnoses made by the physician in charge 
47.7 per cent are absolutely wrong. These figures coincide 
very closely with those of Dr. Cabot. 

This revelation of medical incompetency caused Dr. 
C. L. Wheeler, editor of the New York Journal of Medi- 
cine, to make the following sensational statement: " Every 
doctor in America is a quack — and he can't help it ! This 
statement is amazing only to the layman. No doctor is sur- 
prised at it. Doctors know that all of us are more or 
less quacks; that many of our diagnoses are only guess 
work ; and we all know what is far worse than this — that 
we cannot help it, because our hands are tied. Why is 
this? Because the public refuses medicine the right to 
become an exact science by objecting to the performance 
of an autopsy in every case of death." 

Dr. Wheeler evidently has not learned the lesson taught 
by these autopsies, namely, that the allopathic concep- 
tion of the nature of disease and its methods of diagnosis 
and prognosis as well as of treatment, are all wrong in 
the first place. He might just as well try to prove 100 
x 0=1 as to establish an exact science of diagnosis by 
multiplying autopsies. The postmortem examination may 
reveal the final stages of destruction in vital organs, but 
medical science will continue to fail in diagnosis and prog- 
nosis as long as it does not understand and refuses to 
understand that such destruction is brought about through 



IRIDOLOGY 9 

wrong habits of living and through unnatural methods of 
treatment. 

This is a serious accusation. Why should conscientious 
physicians refuse to investigate the true nature and causes 
of disease? The answer is: Because such knowledge 
comes from "unethical" sources; because from the view- 
point of medical ethics it is better to let a patient die in 
the "regular" way than to see him cured in the "irregu- 
lar" way. 

Not the opposition of the public to autopsies is respon- 
sible for the inadequacy of allopathic diagnosis and prog- 
nosis, but the fact that orthodox medicine is not an exact 
science because it bases its findings on the chaotic and 
contradictory teachings of medical authorities instead of 
studying and complying with the laws of Nature govern- 
ing the processes of health, disease and cure. 

This valuable knowledge is freely offered to the medical 
profession by the School of Natural Therapeutics. As long 
as they refuse to give fair consideration to this exact 
philosophy and science of disease and cure, the teachings 
of which are verified by the experience of millions of in- 
telligent followers all over the earth and in the daily 
practice of tens of thousands of drugless healers in this 
country, they must stand convicted of wilful indifference 
and neglect. 

Since prominent members of the medical profession 
admit the utter inadequacy of allopathic methods of diag- 
nosis and prognosis, why should we hesitate to welcome 
such valuable aids to diagnostic science as Iridology, 
Spinal Analysis and Basic Diagnosis, when every one of 
these helps to elucidate, to correct or confirm the findings 
of other methods ? Is it not a matter of common sense and 
of personal responsibility toward our patients that we 
should combine in diagnosis as well as in treatment all 
that is good and helpful? 



10 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

In the light of these revelations, what reliance can we 
place on medical health certificates issued to candidates 
for marriage? What value can be attached to enforced 
medical examinations in our public schools? What right 
have medical practitioners to pronounce chronics and 
defectives incurable, to sterilize them, or to kill them by 
the refusal of medical aid or by the practice of euthanasia ? 

Is Iridiagnosis Sufficient to Diagnose Disease? 

Iridology is as yet a new science, and much remains to 
be discovered and to be better explained. Many times we 
do not find a sign in the iris for the lesion or diseased con- 
dition which we know to exist in the body. At other times 
the records in the eyes indicate more serious conditions 
than can be ascertained by other methods. As regards 
this point, however, it is well to remember that old school 
physicians, notwithstanding their up-to-date scientific 
equipment, only too often see their diagnosis discredited 
by the postmortem findings. 

Those who confine their examinations to the eye or the 
spine fall as far short of making a reliable diagnosis or 
prognosis as the old school country doctor with his limited 
equipment. In our work we do not confine our- 
selves to Iridiagnosis, but combine with it the diagnostic 
methods (physical diagnosis) of the allopathic school of 
medicine, spinal analysis, basic diagnosis, as well as labora- 
tory tests and microscopic examinations. 

Thus any one of these methods supplements and verifies 
all the others. In this way only is it possible to arrive at 
a thorough and definite understanding of the patient's 
condition. 

The Story of a Great Discovery 
Dr. Von Peckzely, of Budapest, Hungary, discovered 
Nature 's records in the eye, quite by accident, when a boy 
ten years of age. 



IEIDOLOGY 11 

Playing one day in the garden at his home, he caught 
an owl. While struggling with the bird, he broke one of 
its limbs. Gazing straight into the owl's large, bright 
eyes, he noticed, at the moment when the bone snapped, 
the appearance of a black spot in the lower central region 
of the iris, which area he later found to correspond to the 
location of the broken leg. 

The boy put a splint on the broken limb and kept the owl 
as a pet. As the fracture healed, he noticed that the black 
spot in the iris became overdrawn by a white film and 
surrounded by a white border (denoting the formation of 
scar tissues in the broken bone). 

This incident made a lasting impression on the mind 
of the future doctor. It often recurred to him in later 
years. From further observations he gained the convic- 
tion that abnormal physical conditions are portrayed in 
the eyes. 

As a student, Von Peckzely became involved in the revo- 
lutionary movement of 1848 and was put in prison as an 
agitator and ringleader. During his confinement he had 
plenty of time and leisure to pursue his favorite theory, 
and he became more and more convinced of the importance 
of his discovery. After his release he entered upon the 
study of medicine, in order to develop his important dis- 
coveries and to confirm them more fully in the operating 
and dissecting rooms. He had himself enrolled as an in- 
terne in the surgical wards of the college hospital. Here 
he had ample opportunity to observe the eyes of patients 
before and after accidents and operations, and in that 
manner he was enabled to elaborate the first accurate 
Chart of the Eye. 

Since Von Peckzely gave his discoveries to the world, 
many well known scientists and conscientious observers 
in Austria, Germany, Sweden and in this country have 
devoted their lives to the perfection of this wonderful 



12 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

science. Foremost among the followers of Von Peckzely 
in Europe was the Rev. Niels Liljequist, a Swedish clergy- 
man, who, for many years, has made Iridology his life 
work. He perfected Peckzely 's chart of the iris and was 
the first one to describe signs of drug poisoning. He had 
suffered terribly from most of the symptoms of quinin 
poisoning (chronic cinchonism) ever since he had taken 
large quantities of the drug in early life. After he became 
acquainted with iridiagnosis he discovered the connection 
between the yellow discoloration in his eyes and the 
chronic quinin poisoning. This led him to study the rela- 
tionship of other color pigments to various forms of drug 
poisoning, such as iodism, mercurialism, bromism, arsen- 
ical poisoning, etc. 

In Germany Dr. Thiel and Pastor Felke made valuable 
contributions to Iridology, and became famous diagnos- 
ticians and Nature Cure physicians. 

In this country Dr. H. Lahn wrote the first book in the 
English language on this new and valuable method of 
diagnosis. Many years of personal acquaintance with this 
remarkable man and his work impels me to give him credit 
for being one of the ablest iridiagnosticians now living. 
Anderchou in England published a few years ago a brief 
summary of the discoveries and teachings of the pioneers 
of Iridology. 

The " regular' ' school of medicine, as a body, has ig- 
nored and will ignore this science, because it discloses the 
fallacy of their favorite theories and practices, and be- 
cause it reveals unmistakably the direful results of chronic 
drug poisoning and ill advised operations. 

Leaving out of consideration everything that is at pres- 
ent speculative and uncertain, we are justified in making 
the following statements, subject to the qualifications and 
limitations before described: 

(1) The eye is not only, as the ancients said, "the mir 



IRIDOLOGY 13 

ror of the soul", but it also frequently reveals abnormal 
conditions and changes in every part and organ of the 
body. 

(2) Organs and parts of the body are represented in 
the iris of the eye in well defined areas. (Chart — Frontis- 
piece.) 

(3) The iris of the eye contains an immense number of 
minute nerve filaments, which through the optic nerves, 
the optic thalami and the spinal cord are connected with 
and receive impressions from every nerve in the body. 

(4) The nerve filaments, muscle fibres and minute blood 
vessels in the different areas of the iris reproduce the 
changing conditions in the corresponding parts or organs. 

(5) By means of various marks, signs, abnormal colors, 
or discolorations in the iris, Nature reveals transmitted 
disease taints and hereditary lesions. 

(6) By signs, marks and discolorations, Nature also 
makes known acute and chronic inflammatory or catarrhal 
conditions, local lesions, destruction of tissues, various 
drug poisons, and. changes in structures and tissues caused 
by accidental injury or by surgical mutilations. (Figs. 
12, 28) 

(7) The diagnosis from the iris of the eye positively 
confirms Hahnemann's theory that acute diseases have a 
constitutional background of hereditary or acquired dis- 
ease taints or systemic encumbrances. 

(8) This science enables the diagnostician to ascertain, 
from the appearance of the iris, many of the patient 's in- 
herited or acquired tendencies toward health and toward 
disease, his condition in general, and the state of various 
organs in particular. Reading Nature's records in the 
eye, he can predict many of the healing crises through 
which the patient will have to pass on the road to health. 

(9) The iris frequently reveals dangerous changes in 
vital parts and organs from their inception, thus enabling 



14 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

the patient to avert threatening disease by natural living 
and natural methods of treatment. 

(10) Changes in the iris indicate plainly the gradual 
purification of the system, the elimination of morbid mat- 
ter and poisons, and the readjustment of the organism 
to normal conditions under the regenerating influences 
of natural living and treatment. 

How the Signs in the Iris Are Produced 

The effects of surgical operations performed under an- 
esthesia either do not show in the eyes at all, or only very 
faintly, though entire organs or large parts of the body 
may have been removed by the surgeon's knife. This is 
due to the fact that under anesthesia the sensory nerves 
are benumbed and paralyzed; for this reason we do not 
feel pain. This condition of temporary paralysis prevents 
the transmission of impulses to the iris and thereby the 
production of corresponding signs or lesions in the eye. 
For" instance, the loss of a leg amputated under anesthesia 
may not show in the eyes, while the scar tissue caused by 
the bite of a dog, a wound received from a bullet, or other 
injury received in a waking, conscious condition, may 
show for life in the form of a closed lesion in the iris. 

These facts prove that the lesions in the eyes are made 
through abnormal or pathological nerve impulses, which 
throw the nerve fibres and other structures in the surface 
layers of the iris out of their normal arrangement. In- 
flammatory processes incidental to the healing of wounds 
show temporarily as white signs. 

Discolorations or color signs in the eyes are created by 
color pigments carried into and deposited in the surface 
layers of the iris through the capillary circulation. 

The dark signs of subacute catarrhal and chronic catar- 
rhal conditions and of loss of substance or death of tissues 
are created through atrophy and sloughing of nerve and 



IRIDOLOGY 15 

muscle fibres in the surface of the iris, or depressions and 
holes in the deeper layers. 

I have frequently heard the question, "How is it pos- 
sible that lesions in the body show in the iris on the same 
side, when all the afferent nerves cross to the opposite 
brain half? According to this, lesions in one side of the 
body should show in the opposite iris. ,, The answer is, — 
the crossing" of the optic nerves brings back the signs in 
the iris to the side of the body in which the corresponding 
lesion is located. 

Exceptions to this are lesions in the brain. They cross 
over in the optic nerves, and show in the opposite iris. 
Thus lesions in right brain half show in the left iris and 
vice versa. 



CHAPTER II 

ANATOMY OF THE IRIS 

Since this volume is intended for the use of the layman 
as well as of the practicing physician, I shall endeavor to 
make the anatomical description as brief and simple as 
possible. To go into detail would only serve to confuse 



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Fig. 1. Cross Section of Eyeball. 

the layman and would not be of any special advantage to 
the trained scientist. 

The eyeball is a hollow, elastic body, about one inch in 
diameter and nearly spherical in form. The segment of a 
smaller sphere projects in the front. The larger sphere is 
made up of three coats — the sclera, choroid and retina. 

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ANATOMY OF THE IRIS 



17 



1. The sclera or sclerotic coat is a tough, opaque fibrous 
membrane which surrounds about five-sixths of the eye- 
ball. It serves to protect the inner parts from injury and 
to preserve the spherical shape of the eye. 

The cornea is a continuation of the sclera and covers 
the frontal part of the eye which encloses the anterior 
chamber containing the aqueous humor. The cornea is as 
transparent as glass, so as to admit the light unhindered 
into the interior of the eye. 

2. The choroid, or middle coat, is made up of connec- 
tive tissue, blood vessels and pigment cells. The purpose 

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Fig. 2. Cross Section of Iris. 



of the choroid layer and the ciliary body is to supply 
nutriment to the whole eyeball. 

The iris is a forward continuation of the choroid coat. 
It is a circular, mobile, colored curtain, suspended in the 
aqueous humor behind the cornea and in front of the 
crystalline lens. It is perforated a little toward the nasal 
side of its center by a circular aperture called the pupil. 
The iris receives its name (iris, irides, — a rainbow) from 
its varying color effects. 

3. An inner coat, called the retina, which is an extension 
of the optic nerve, serves to receive impressions from the 
outside world and conveys them through the optic nerve 
to the center of vision in the occipital lobe of the cerebrum. 

Structure of the Iris (Pig. 2, p. 17) 

A. Surface endothelium. This is a single layer of flat 
endothelial cells continuous with the posterior lining of 
the cornea. 



18 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

B. Stroma, a closely packed mesh- work of delicate radi- 
ating connective tissue fibres, enmeshing numerous nerve 
filaments, blood vessels, lymph vessels and large, irregu- 
larly branched connective tissue cells. 

C. In the deeper layers of the stroma a band of invol- 
untary muscle fibres, about 1 mm. in width, encircles the 
pupilary margin of the iris. Reflex contraction of this 
sphincter diminishes the size of the pupil. 

Some authorities describe also radiating muscle fibres 
stretching from the border of the sphincter to the circum- 
ference of the iris. In all probability, however, these are 
elastic and not muscle fibres, the dilation of the pupil be- 
ing accounted for by the relaxation of the sphincter mus- 
cle and the resulting automatic contraction of the elastic 
muscle fibres. The brighter the light, the more contracted 
the pupil, and vice versa. This mechanism aims to regu- 
late the amount of light to be admitted to the retina. 

D. Pigment layer. It consists of two rows of epithelial 
cells of a dark purple color, which rest on the uneven sur- 
face of the basement membrane of the iris. This pigment 
layer serves to prevent the penetration of light through 
the iris into the inner dark chamber of the eyeball. 

E. Basement membrane consisting of strong connective 
tissue, which forms the support and innermost layer of 
the iris. 

The Normal Colors of the Iris 

As described in Chapter IV, there are only two normal 
iris colors, — light azure blue and light hazel brown. 

I. The stroma of the blue iris is devoid of pigment, thus 
allowing the purple pigment layer to shimmer through as 
a uniform, clear sky blue. 

II. In the normal brown iris the connective tissue cells 
of the stroma contain a brown pigment which totally ob- 



ANATOMY OF THE IRIS 



19 



scures the purple pigment layer, thus imparting a uniform, 
clear light brown color to the iris. 

The albino iris contains no pigment either in the con- 
nective tissue cells of the stroma or in the pigment layer. 
The resulting transparency renders the blood vessels 
visible, hence the iris presents a delicate pink appear- 
ance. 

For the sake of avoiding confusion we will henceforth 
consider only the Indo-Caueasian iris which is normally 
of a uniform brilliant azure color. 



The Blood Supply of the Iris 

(Fig. 3) 

The long and short ciliary blood vessels form a com- 
plete ring around the peripheral border of the iris. 




Fig. 3. Blood Supply to. Iris. 



From this major circle branches are given off which 
converge toward the pupil. 



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IRIDIAGNOSIS 



At a short distance from the outer border of the sphinc- 
ter muscle they divide and anastamose to form a second 
ring, 

From this minor circle branches continue their course 
to the pupilary border. 



The Nerve Supply of the Iris 

(Fig. 4) 

The nerve supply of the iris deserves special attention. 
The circular muscle fibres are supplied by the short ciliary 
nerve branch of the motor oculi, or third cranial nerve, 
coming directly from the brain. 




Fig. 4. 



The other structures are supplied by the long ciliary 
nerve, which is in direct communication with the cervical 
ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system. These nerves 
travel forward to the iris through the choroid coat of the 



ANATOMY OF THE IBIS 



21 



eyeball. Along the attached margin of the iris they form 
a plexus from which nerve filaments are given off to the 
muscle fibres and other structures of the iris. Some of 
these nerve filaments also go to form a complete network 
on the surface of the iris immediately underneath the 
surface endothelium. These are arranged in triangles, 
the bases of which rest on the outer rim of the iris, and 
whose apices point toward the pupil. (Fig. 4a) The 





Fig. 4a. Triangles Formed by Nerves. 

sides of these triangles coincide with the blood vessels, 
these with the sympathetic nerve supply, and these in turn 
with the borders of the organ areas. 

The direct connection of the nerve filaments in the sur- 
face layers of the iris with the cervical ganglia of the 
sympathetic nervous system explains how impressions 
(vasomotor changes) from all over the body may be con- 
veyed to the iris. 



CHAPTER III 

EXPLANATION OF THE KEY TO IRIDOLOGY 

(See Chart, Frontispiece) 

Every important part and organ in the body has its 
corresponding location in the iris in a well defined area, 
as outlined in the frontispiece. 

As long as an organ is in normal condition, the corre- 
sponding area in the iris presents the normal color, either 
light blue or light brown, without any mark, sign or dis- 
coloration whatsoever. 

"When an organ or part of the body undergoes acute or 
chronic changes as a result of hereditary influences, sys- 
temic or drug poisoning, or from mechanical injury, then 
these pathological changes are recorded in the correspond- 
ing area in the iris. Pregnancy, though involving pro- 
found changes in the organism, is not indicated in the iris 
because it is a normal physiological process. 

Surgical mutilations of the body performed under anes- 
thesia do not show in the iris, or only very faintly, because 
anesthesia benumbs and paralyzes the sensory nerves and 
thereby prevents the transmission of nerve impulses to 
the iris. 

Any substance congenial to the body, i. e., naturally 
belonging to it, does not show in the iris. All substances 
not congenial to the body, i. e., those which do not belong 
to it, such as minerals and earthy elements in the inorganic 
form, and all poisons, show in the iris in well defined signs 
and color changes in the areas corresponding to the parts 
or organs where these substances have accumulated. 

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EXPLANATION OF KEY TO IRIDOLOGY 23 

The arrangement of the areas in the iris is symmetrical 
and somewhat in harmony with the location of the various 
parts and organs in the body. We find the area of the 
stomach directly around the pupil and the field of the in- 
testines surrounding the region of the stomach. The outer 
border of the intestinal field, the "sympathetic wreath", 
corresponds to the sympathetic nervous system, and all 
other parts and organs of the body radiate from or run 
into this sympathetic wreath. 

All this is in correspondence with conditions in the body. 
The stomach and intestines are centrally located ; they are 
to the body what the fire-box is to boiler and engine. The 
entire organism is dependent upon the digestive organs 
for the elements of nutrition and fuel material. 

Every cell and organ in the body depends upon the 
sympathetic nervous system for its supply of vital energy. 
All involuntary vital functions and activities are con- 
trolled and directed through the sympathetic nervous sys- 
tem. This is indicated in the iris by the fact that the areas 
of the various parts and organs start or radiate from the 
sympathetic wreath. 

Thus the brain with its divisions, subdivisions and spe- 
cial centers is located in the upper regions of the iris, 
analogous to the location of the brain in the body. The 
distinctly human intellectual faculties, capacities and 
powers are located, in right-handed people, in the left 
brain hemisphere, but reflected through crossing of the 
optic nerves into the right iris. In left-handed people the 
condition is the reverse. The reason for this has been 
fully explained in Vol. IV, " Eugenics ". 

The area of the leg is located in the center of the lower 
half of the iris, etc. Those organs which are located on one 
side of the body appear only in the corresponding iris. 
The heart and spleen, for instance, are represented in the 
left iris. The corresponding halves of organs divided by 



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IRIDIAGNOSIS 



the median line of the body, such as the nose, mouth, blad- 
der and genital organs, appear in both irides. 

The symmetry of the divisions of the iris is much more 
real than is apparent on superficial examination. This be- 
comes more clear as we study closely the interdependence 
of the various parts of the body. 

The relation between the regions of the iris and the 
corresponding organs and parts of the body is further 
illustrated in Fig. 5, which is constructed by the following 
procedure : 

Divide each iris of the regular key vertically through 
the center. Put the outer halves together and imagine 




Anterior 



urzitp 

Posterior 



Fig. 5. Split Ciretee. 



the resulting circle to be as large as the body. Then place 
the resulting large imaginary circle on the anterior aspect 
of the body in such a way that the pupil covers the um- 
bilicus. 

Similarly, the circle formed by the apposition of the 
inner halves is placed on the posterior aspect of the body. 

By imagining these maps to be vertically and hori- 
zontally enlarged so as to cover the entire anterior and 



EXPLANATION OF KEY TO IRIDOLOGY 25 

posterior aspects of the body, the areas will be found 
to correspond closely to the different parts of the body. 
This symmetrical correspondence of the organ areas in 
the iris to the location of the organs in the body is concha 
sive evidence that this arrangement is not accidental, but 
is in harmony with Nature's definite design and purpose, 
and thus amply justifies scientific inquiry into the mysteri- 
ous cypher language of the iris. 






CHAPTER IV 

A UNIFORM DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION OF 

DISEASE 

Students of iridology frequently complain that this in- 
teresting science has not been sufficiently systematized 
for purposes of intelligent study. In order to overcome 
this difficulty and to facilitate the study, I have divided 
the successive stages in the development of diseases into 
four well defined "stages of encumbrance." 

Such a uniform division and classification *of disease 
conditions and of the corresponding records in the iris, 
once established, will greatly facilitate the study of Nat- 
ural Therapeutics and of the diagnosis from the iris. It 
will also serve to establish a well defined phraseology in- 
telligent to the layman and especially valuable to students 
and practitioners. 

The Four Stages of Encumbrance 

We distinguish in the development of chronic diseases 
the following four distinct stages of encumbrance : 

First, hereditary and congenital stage; 

Second, or acute and subacute inflammatory stage ; 

Third, or chronic stage ; 

Fourth, or chronic destructive stage, accompanied by 
loss of substance. 

All chronic diseases (not caused by violence or condi- 
tions uncongenial to human life) that end fatally, pass 
through these four successive stages of encumbrance. 

Chronic disease never develops suddenly in the human 
body. Nature always tries to prevent its gradual develop- 

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DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION 27 

ment by acute and subacute healing efforts. If these, by 
any means whatever, are checked and suppressed, then 
they are followed either by fatal complications or chronic 
after effects, the mysterious "sequelae" of medical science. 
Thus we find that the unity of disease as to causes and 
manifestations, applies to chronic as well as to acute dis- 
eases. 

First, Hereditary and Congenital Stage of Disease 

Iridiagnosis settles forever in the affirmative the ques- 
tion as to whether or not tendencies to disease are heredi- 
tary. 

Inherited tendencies are recorded in the iris of the eye 
in three ways, by color, density and hereditary lesions. 

(1) The color of the iris indicates whether the vital 
fluids and tissues are pure and normal or affected by dis- 
ease taints and foreign substances. 

(2) The density, that is, the woof or grain of the struc- 
tures composing the iris, gives us information about the 
firmness, vitality and general tone of the tissues of the 
body. 

(3) Hereditary and congenital lesions in the form of 
shady, grey, usually ovoid or spindle form spots in the 
iris of the offspring indicate weakness or disease in corre- 
sponding organs or parts of the bodies of the parents. 

For instance, if the lungs of the mother were affected 
by tuberculosis during pregnancy this may show in the 
iris of the child in the form of grey or shady signs or 
lesions in the areas of the lungs. I say, may show, because 
heredity is subject to many modifying influences. This 
we shall study more fully in the fourth volume of this 
series, entitled "Eugenics, or Man-Building on the Phys- 
ical, Mental and Moral Planes of Being. " 

Under natural management certain organs or entire 
bodies, no matter how badly affected by abnormal hered- 



28 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

ity, may outgrow entirely the tendency to weakness and 
disease. 

This is the message of great promise of Natural Thera- 
peutics to those who fear to assume the responsibility of 
parenthood on account of weakness and ill health; pro- 
vided, of course, that the parents properly prepare them- 
selves, and that the offspring be treated prenatally and 
postnatally in accordance with the teachings of Natural 
Eugenics. 

Color of the Iris 

First let us consider the color of the iris. The question 
arises, is there a normal color of the iris, and if so, what is 
it, and what influences will change it and produce abnor- 
mal color effects? 

The answer to this is as follows : There are two normal 
colors of the iris, — light brown and light blue. These are 
subject to change through various hereditary and ac- 
quired influences. In the previous chapter I have ex- 
plained how the anatomical structure of the various layers 
of the iris accounts for the blue and brown color effects. 

The influence of race heredity on the color of the hair 
and eyes is an intensely interesting subject, but I cannot 
discuss it in the confines of this volume. It will be treated 
more fully in the fourth volume of this series. 

Concerning the subject of racial color I call attention 
here to only a few interesting facts. There really is no 
black color of the eyes. As before stated, brown and blue 
in various shades of lightness and darkness are the only 
two normal colors of the iris, and these were originally 
determined by race heredity. 

According to esoteric history five great root races have 
come into existence so far on this planet. The third of 
these was the Lemurian root race which inhabited the 
continent of Lemuria or Pan, which occupied a large area 



DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION 29 

of what is now the Pacific Ocean. The similarity of geo- 
logical formations, flora, fauna, and of ethnological char- 
acteristics observed on the many thousands of islands in 
the Pacific Ocean which are supposed to have been the 
mountain peaks of ancient Lemuria, offer strong evidence 
in favor of the existence of such a continent. The remark- 
able ruins on the Island of Madagascar, built of immense 
blocks of stone, are remains of the gigantic architecture 
of the Lemurian giants, who were probably the prototype 
of the Cyclopes of Greek mythology. 

The fourth or Atlantean root race is the first one about 
which we possess authentic knowledge. Its early sub- 
races were the yellow — Chinese and Mongolian — the black 
skinned African, and the red and copper colored Atlantean 
or Turanian branches. All these offshoots of the fourth 
or Atlantean root race were brown eyed and black haired. 

The fifth or Aryan root race developed from the latest 
and most perfect offshoots of the Atlantean race. The first 
three offshoots of the great Aryan race — the Hindoo, 
Arabian and Iranian or Persian subraces — underwent a 
gradual change from the copper color of the latest Atlan- 
tean races to the dusky brunette of the most highly de- 
veloped products of the Hindoo, Arabian, Persian, Chal- 
dean and Semitic types. 

The last two subraces of the Aryan root race, the Keltic 
and Indo-Caucasian branches, completed the transition 
from the Asiatic brunette to the blonde type of the Keltic 
and Indo-Caucasian branches. The fourth or Keltic sub- 
race emigrated southwestward from the cradle of the 
Aryan race in what is now eastern Siberia, conquered the 
countries around the Mediterranean, and founded the 
ancient Greek, Latin and Iberian civilizations. From 
Spain Iberian tribes emigrated into Ireland and Great 
Britain. 

The last or fifth subrace of the Aryan root race took its 






30 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

course along the northern slopes of the Caucasus and tar- 
ried there for many thousands of years before it resumed 
its westward course into what is now called the conti- 
nent of Europe. The offshoots of this subrace were the 
Germanic, Gallic, Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian 
tribes, whose outstanding racial characteristics were tall 
stature, egg-shaped skull, fair skin, yellow hair and azure 
blue iris. 

Mongrelization, the Principal Cause of Change in Racial 
Characteristics 

If the founders of the Persian, Babylonian, Egyptian, 
Grecian, Roman and Iberian civilizations were of Aryan 
descent, why is it that their descendants have lost the 
ancient Aryan racial characteristics as regards physical 
and, to a certain extent, intellectual and moral traits ? The 
answer to this is that in these countries there are left to- 
day few, if any, remnants of pure Aryan stock. Aryan 
blood and with it Aryan characteristics of body, mind 
and soul, have been adulterated and obliterated through 
mixing with fourth race peoples or with mongrelized 
descendants of earlier Aryan races. 

Mongrelization, only, is the true key to the deteriora- 
tion and degeneration of races and nations. There is not 
one exception in the history of mankind in the rise, de- 
cline and fall of nations and empires from the smallest 
and earliest to the latest and greatest. It is not so much 
the influence of climate, surroundings or any other local 
conditions that has changed the perfect contour of the 
Aryan skull or his physical characteristics and intellec- 
tual and moral standards into the lower, degenerate types 
of today. The principal agency in this process of deteri- 
oration and degeneration has been, and is now, the co- 
mingling of Aryan blood with that of older and inferior 
races and subraces. Nature everywhere places her mark 



DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION 31 

of disapproval upon the hybrid, half-breed and mongrel. 

This is true in the animal kingdom, as well as in the 
human. Darwin and all other students of flora, fauna 
and of the human species concur in the testimony that the 
hybrid and the mongrel are doomed to deterioration and 
extinction in nature unless they are gradually absorbed 
by a higher race and that the higher race can absorb them 
with impunity only by slow and gradual inbreeding. 

The mule, the offspring of the horse and donkey, may 
seem strong and vigorous, but he cannot propagate his 
kind. The mongrelization of domestic animals is no proof 
of failure of the law which ordains purity of the species 
to insure normal development and improvement. The 
artificially bred hybrids and mongrels among our domes- 
tic animals would become extinct within a short time if 
deprived of the fostering care of man. These artificial 
products of man's breeding and training are not stable 
types. All the so called high-bred animals will quickly 
revert to the common level if not interfered with by man. 

It is only by the enforcement of racial purity that Na- 
ture can develop and improve her genera, species and fam- 
ilies in certain well-defined directions. If she approved 
of and allowed promiscuous intercourse and fertilization 
among various species and races, specialization and con- 
stant improvement as we witness it in the development 
of genera, species, races and subraces of animals and men 
would be an impossibility. All would be a wild and cha- 
otic jumble of nondescripts and monstrosities. 

As before stated, this interesting subject of racial de- 
scent will be fully discussed in "Eugenics," the fourth 
volume of this series. 

Iris Color and Mental Characteristics 

Ancient history records that only a few thousand years 
ago, before the era of drug poisoning and hyper-civiliza- 



32 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

tion, blue eyes and blond hair were still the rule among 
nations of Keltic and Indo-Caucasian descent. Homer de- 
scribes his Hellenic heroes as blue eyed and blond haired. 
The victors in the Olympian games were often so de- 
scribed. Caesar speaks of his brave foes, — the Gauls, an- 
cestors of the brown eyed French, — as blue eyed and blond 
haired. The blue eyes and golden hair of the captive 
northern maidens were the envy of the dark eyed Roman 
beauties. It became the fashion for wealthy Roman ladies 
to wear the yellow tresses of the Teuton women, while 
the "peroxide blonde" was not an uncommon spectacle 
in the streets of Rome. 

Blue eyed Caucasian regiments today form the cream 
of the Sultan's army. Circassian beauties are admired the 
world over for their abundant and luxuriant yellow hair 
and blue eyes. The regiment of giants collected from all 
over the world at great expense and trouble by Frederick 
"William, the father of Frederick the Great, was composed 
of blue eyed men. 

Observe closely first class companies of jugglers, circus 
performers, strong men, prize-fighters, animal trainers, 
singers and actors, and note how many brown eyed people 
you find among them. You will be astonished at the small 
percentage. 

Visit an old people's home and count the brown eyed 
above 60 years of age ; you will not find twenty-five in a 
hundred. 

The following clipping from "Physical Culture" in an 
article concerning baseball is of especial interest in this 
connection : 

' ' The reason why the Jew is not more prominent in the greatest 
of American sports — baseball — is due partly to a physical peculiar- 
ity of his race. The first requisite of a good baseball player is that 
he shall be a strong batsman. One of the methods employed by a 
manager in selecting his players is an examination of the eyes,, for 



DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION 33 

it is a singular fact, though little known, that the best "batsmen 
are men with light-colored eyes. For some reason the dark eyed 
man has never been able to get his eye on the ball well enough 
to become a great and consistent batsman. As Jews, with com- 
paratively few exceptions, are dark eyed, they cannot qualify 
in this important particular. The dark eyed man must have some 
remarkable special ability outside of batting to recommend him 
to the consideration of the baseball manager." 

Observe school children in cold and stormy weather. 
You will find the blue eyed outside at play in spite of 
cold, rain, or storm, but the brown eyed will be in the 
house hugging the warm stove. 

Our brown eyed patients, as a rule, shun the cold water 
treatment, — they have a perfect horror of it. Many would 
rather die than be cured by cold water, while the blue 
eyed usually take to it like ducks. Homeopathy says, 
' ' Sulphur patients shun the water. ' ' Now sulphur patients 
are usually psoric patients, and psoric individuals are 
usually brown eyed. 

Let me conclude my discussion of iris color with a few 
quotations from the writings of Major Woodruff, M. D., 
of the United States Army, who spent many years in the 
tropics and devoted much effort to ethnological research, 
— the study of racial customs and characteristics. 

As indicated in the following excerpts from his writings, 
he fully recognizes the superiority of the blond type. He 
says: 

"The blond Aryan type must have flowed south and asserted 
its supremacy early, for all traditions from pre-history show the 
aristocracy and royalty to be of this type, even in lands densely 
brunette. 

"Most of Poland's great men, such as Kosciusko, have been of 
this type, but the mass of Poles are too inert for Aryan independ- 
encies. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, was a blue eyed 
Aryan of the ruling aristocrats. His father was a lawyer ' of noble 
lineage and patriotic antecedents.' His struggle for Hungarian 



34 IRIBIAGNOSIS 

independence was typically Aryan — 'equal rights for every class, 
freedom for religious belief, trial by jury, free public instruction, 
and the annual meeting of the diet. 7 

"Investigations show the general tendency to the blond, tall, 
long headed type among the upper classes of Russia and Poland.* ' 

Royalty and nobility of Russia, capitalists and captains 
of industry, if not Jewish, are of the blond type and of 
Aryan descent. 

Major Woodruff believes that the first men were un- 
doubtedly brunettes from whom blonds have gradually 
evolved with the acquirement of their higher characters. 
This coincides with my history of the descent of the races 
in "Eugenics". The third and fourth race people and the 
early offshoots of the fifth root race were dark colored and 
brunette. The Keltic, Germanic and Scandinavian races 
were normally blue eyed and blond haired. 

Major Woodruff further says: 

"The blue eyed and rufous (reddish haired) type was chosen in 
the early centuries for pictures of Jesus Christ. 

1 ' Brunettes live in cities, blonds live on the waters. The brunette 
is a landlubber. The blond is now and always has been the best 
sailor. He takes to water like a duck, even after several generations 
have lived on land. He is the yachtsman of the world, the boat- 
builder, and rules the sea. For centuries the Mediterranean man 
has been building fleets for the Baltic man's pleasure to destroy. 
Moreover, Havelock Ellis' studies in the National Portrait gallery 
lead him to suppose that England's power rests in great part on her 
blond sons. He says that the small group of prominent people 
springing from the working classes is among the darkest of the 
group. He says it is clear that a high index of blondness or an 
excess of fairness prevails among the men of restless and ambitious 
temperament, — the sanguine, energetic men, the men who easily 
dominate their fellows, and who get on in life; the men who recruit 
the aristocracy and who doubtless spring largely from the plutoc- 
racy. It is significant, he further notes, that the group of low class 
men, artisans, peasants, and the men of religion, whose mission in 
life is to practice and preach resignation to a higher will, are both 
notably dark. While the men of action tend to be fair, the men 



DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION 35 

of thought show some tendency to be dark. (Author's note: Those 
with negative, psychic tendencies.) 

"Blond Symbol of Aristocracy" 

''In the royal family Mr. Ellis found an early tendency toward 
fairness, but by later Tudor times there was a tendency toward 
darkness, while the light mixed type of eye, usually blue-yellow, 
has remained persistent. It is from the fair elements he observes 
that the aristocracy is chiefly recruited, though in the course of 
a few generations there is a tendency to brunetteness in these fami- 
lies, probably from the tendency of the blond men to marry brunette 
women. ' ' 

Major Woodruff Becomes "Mixed" 

After thus acknowledging the physical and mental supe- 
riority of the blue eyed type, Major Woodruff becomes 
twisted in his deductions through not understanding how 
color of the eyes is influenced by mongrelization and by 
unnatural habits of living. He says "Blonds, despite 
their prowess, are a vanishing race," and he finds that 
Great Britain's brunettes are absorbing the blonds, that 
the blond type is less resistant and that there are fewer 
instances of long life among the blonds ; also ' ' they form 
an undue proportion of England's invalids and are prone 
to certain mortal maladies which are withstood by the 
brunettes." 

He reasons from the increase of brunettes in the cities 
that they are the stronger and more resistant type. If 
he understood the laws as revealed by the diagnosis from 
the eye he would perceive that exactly the reverse is true, 
that the increase in the number of brunettes is due to the 
degenerating influences of city life, that the rapidly in- 
creasing numbers of brunettes are blue eyed people, or 
their descendants, turned dark eyed under the weakening, 
degenerating influences of mongrelization, food poisoning 
foul air, confinement, over-strain, over-stimulation, luetic 



36 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

diseases, drugging, vaccination, lymph, serum, and anti- 
toxin therapy. He would also understand that the pre- 
ponderance of blue eyed invalids is due to the fact that 
they are the more resistant race and that they will survive 
adverse influences, such as dissipation, surgical opera- 
tions, drug poisoning, etc., under which brown eyed peo- 
ple quickly succumb and die. 

One reason why brown eyed persons sometimes outlive 
the blue eyed is because the latter are apt to squander 
their exuberant vital resources in dissipation and over- 
work. They feel and act as though there were no limit 
to their powers of endurance, while the brown eyed folk 
are usually well aware of their limited resistance and 
weakened powers of endurance and therefore instinctively 
husband their strength. 

This explains why blond athletes and prize-fighters fre- 
quently fall victims to wasting diseases early in life. A 
recent example of this self destruction of a splendid Saxon 
specimen through overwork and dissipation is our genial, 
virile Jack London. In many of his novels he rhapsodizes 
over the excellent qualities of the blond superman. He was 
very well aware of the superiority of the type and por- 
trays it in many of his characters. 

We constantly find in our practice that as a rule the 
recuperative powers of the blond are much better than 
those of the brunette. The great men of history of Aryan 
descent, almost without exception, no matter to what na- 
tion they belong, have been and are now blue eyed. Sta- 
tistics are being collected which confirm this fact in a sur- 
prising manner. As before stated, Columbus was a blue 
eyed Italian and Napoleon was a blue eyed Corsican. 

Look at a map of Europe and note how, traveling from 
north to south, the size and strength of body as well as 
physical and mental vigor, positiveness and aggressiveness 
decrease with the increase of color in the eye. Compare, 



DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION 37 

for instance, the vigorous, blue eyed Canadian and North 
American with the languid Southerner, the brown eyed, 
lazy Mexican ; and still lower in the scale, the dark eyed 
natives of the Brazilian tropics. 

From this evidence, is it not clear that the blue eyed 
type of humanity, as a rule racially as well as individually, 
represents physically and mentally the vigorous, energetic, 
aggressive, sanguine, positive qualities of human nature, 
while the brown eyed exhibit in a marked degree the 
weaker, negative, subjective, sensitive and emotional char- 
acteristics ? 

However, do not despair, ye brown eyed folk, for in 
spite of the color of your eyes you may be better off phys- 
ically and mentally than a great many of your blue eyed 
brothers and sisters, for as previously stated, three factors 
in the diagnosis from the eye determine health, strength 
and expectancy of life, — viz., color, density and hereditary 
lesions. An individual possessing dark eyes of good dens- 
ity may have much better chances for health and long life 
than a blue eyed person with an iris of poor density and 
with many hereditary and acquired lesions and signs of 
suppression and drug poisoning. 

The Influence of Disease on the Color of the Iris 

Another factor aside from race heredity which affects 
the color of the iris and which changes it from the natural 
light brown or blue color to darker tints and pigments, 
lies in encumbrance of the system with waste matter, dis- 
ease taints and drug poisons and with gradual atrophy 
and death of tissues. The nature of these changes I have 
briefly explained in my comparison of inflammation to 
fermentation, in "The Making of a Chronic," and in 
other places. 

As we have learned, the normal iris color of individuals 



38 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

of pure Germanic, Anglo-Saxon, Keltic or Scandinavian 
origin is a light blue without any signs, marks or discolor- 
ations whatsoever. Darkening of the iris color into black- 
ish blue, ashy grey or brown among descendants of these 
Aryan subraces is always an indication of impure blood 
due either to an admixture of blood of darker races or to 
unnatural habits of living and the unnatural treatment of 
disease. 

If children of Indo-Caucasian or Keltic origin are born 
dark eyed, with eyes of blackish blue or brown color, we 
find that under the influence of natural management as 
to feeding, bathing, breathing and under the natural treat- 
ment of diseases, the color of the iris grows lighter and 
gradually returns to the original sky blue. 

On the other hand, we find that under influence of un- 
natural management, after suppression of acute diseases 
(Nature's healing, cleansing efforts), and after vaccina- 
tion, drug poisoning, antitoxin, lymph and serum treat- 
ment, the iris of the infant becomes darker and exhibits 
various signs, discolorations and pigmentations which we 
shall consider in detail later on. 

To recapitulate, — darkening of the iris never takes place 
simultaneously with improvement, but always with deteri- 
oration of health. Lightening and clearing up of the iris 
color never takes place simultaneously with deterioration 
but always with improvement in health. 

In seventeen years' practice and close daily observation 
of changes in the iris, I have never seen an exception to 
this rule. This is one of the revelations of Nature's rec- 
ords in the iris which make Iridology an exact science. 
The changes in color are the best indication whether or not 
the methods of living and of treating diseases are in har- 
mony with Nature 's laws. 

If acute elimination takes place through certain parts 
and organs of the body, the corresponding areas in the 



DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION 39 

iris often show much lighter in color than the remaining 
parts of the eye, indicating that the eliminating parts and 
organs have become more alive and active and compara- 
tively purer than the rest of the body. 

Instances like the following are of common occurrence 
in our practice. A few years ago we diagnosed in our 
college class a brown eyed man who had been suffering 
from childhood with a psoric constitution and from drug 
poisoning. While the eyes were dark brown, the areas 
corresponding to the lungs were comparatively blue. I 
questioned the students about the meaning of this phenom- 
enon, but failing to receive a satisfactory answer I asked 
the man whether it was not a fact that of late years he 
had been eliminating from lungs and bronchi a great deal 
of phlegm and mucus. This he confirmed and told us 
that his "chronic catarrh' ' had been a great annoyance 
to him. He did not understand that this "chronic ca- 
tarrh' ' had probably saved his life, and that, thanks to 
this continuous elimination, the lungs had purified them- 
selves more thoroughly than had other organs of the body. 
He was physically based. His weakest organs were the 
kidneys and intermediate organs, the lungs. Therefore the 
lungs, sustained by strong digestive organs, had saved 
the kidneys from destruction. This is explained more 
fully in "Basic Diagnosis", pages 296, 297. 

Luckily for him he had been under homeopathic treat- 
ment, which did not interfere with this form of elimina- 
tion. Under suppressive treatment by means of quinin, 
opiates, coal tar products, etc., this cleansing process 
would have been checked and suppressed. Drug poisons 
would have been added to disease taints and under such 
unnatural treatment all sorts of complications, or death, 
would have been the inevitable result. If he had survived, 
the areas of the lungs instead of being lighter would have 
been much darker, and would have showji the black signs 



40 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

of chronic catarrh and of loss of substance (caverns in 
the lungs). 

Iris Color and Climate 

The question may be asked at this point, what has cli- 
mate to do with changes in the color of the eyes and hair ? 
It is quite generally believed that climatic influences have 
a powerful effect upon racial color, that sunlight and 
great heat tend to darken eyes and hair. This impression 
has arisen probably because brunette and dark races and 
nations predominate in the heated zones. As a matter 
of fact, however, climatic influences change racial char- 
acteristics only temporarily and to a slight degree. The 
descendants of the blue eyed Dutch retain their blond 
characteristics to this day in the hot African Veldt. Rem- 
nants of Vandal tribes in Northern Africa are still blue 
eyed. The Jew, after being acclimated for many centuries 
in northern Russia and Scandinavian countries, is brown 
eyed and black haired to this day, provided in his veins 
runs the pure Semitic blood. 



CHAPTER V 
DENSITY OF THE IRIS 

(Fig. 6, p. 42) 

While color of the iris is indicative of hereditary traits 
and of the degree of purity or impurity of blood and tis- 
sues, density is a measure of that which we call vitality, 
tone, power of resistance, recuperative power, etc. 

Normal Density 

Before proceeding with the study of this subject let me 
explain what is meant by density. When the structures 
composing the stroma and surface layer of the iris are 
normally developed and arranged in an orderly manner 
so that they lie in smooth, even layers, like the fibres 
in a perfectly woven fabric, and when the layer of en- 
dothelial cells covering the surface of the stroma is 
intact, then the iris is of normal density and presents a 
surface of crystalline clearness with the beautiful, glossy 
appearance of topaz or mother-of-pearl. 

While such an iris is the rule among animals living in 
freedom, it is nowadays very rarely found in human be- 
ings.* It is sometimes seen in cats' eyes, but never in 
dogs', probably because the cat stubbornly adheres to its 
natural modes of living, while the dog readily adapts 
himself to the unnatural habits of living of his master and 
is, therefore, more prone to disease than any other animal 



*"The surface endothelium is very perishable, being demon- 
strable only in fresh specimens obtained from young individuals, 
and usually with much greater difficulty in the human than in the 
animal iris." (From a standard work on anatomy.) 

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42 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

excepting man and the hog. Burton Hendricks, the can- 
cer expert, claims that the lap dogs of Fifth Avenue are 
afflicted with cancer as frequently as are their luxury 
loving owners. 

Defective Density 

In an iris of defective density the nerve and muscle 
fibres in the surface layer and stroma are unevenly de- 




Fig. 6. The Four Densities. 

veloped and arranged— some swollen, others shrunken or 
entirely obliterated, all crooked, warped and intermingled. 
In some areas the fibres are massed into bundles ; in others, 
entirely displaced so that the darker underlying layers 
become revealed, giving the appearance of dark shadings 
and black spots. 

In some instances the displacement is so deep that actual 
holes are formed exposing the dark pigment layer. This 
is often the case after serious wounds and fractures en- 
tailing great loss of tissues. Such a hole in the iris was 
the dark spot in the owl's eye which led the boy Peckzely 
to the discovery of this wonderful science of Iridology. 

An iris of defective density presents in color, as well as 
in grain and texture, an uneven, mottled appearance. As 
every sign, mark or discoloration in the iris stands for 



DENSITY OF THE IRIS 43 

some abnormal condition in the body, it is clear why defec- 
tive density indicates lowered vitality and weakened re- 
sistance. 

We judge the firmness and textile strength of a piece of 
wood, metal or woven fabric by the fineness and smooth- 
ness of grain and fibre. Correspondingly, we recognize 
in coarseness, looseness and irregular arrangement of 
fibre the unmistakable marks of inferiority and lack of 
textile strength and stamina. 

Oak and mahogany have a finer grain than poplar or 
willow; steel is finer and denser in texture than iron. 

Similarly, a fine, dense iris indicates density and firm- 
ness of tissues in the body, and vice versa. In other words, 
the degree of density of the iris corresponds to the degree 
of vitality and to the general tone of the system. Since 
density refers only to the woof of the iris, the scurf rim, 
medicine signs, lymphatic rosary and itch spots are not 
taken into consideration in determining the degree of 
density. 

Significance of Density 

Since abnormal color pigments in the iris represent en- 
cumbrances of morbid and foreign matter in the system, 
and since density denotes the degree of integrity and 
tone of the tissues, color and density combined indicate 
the degree of — 

(a) Stamina and endurance; 

(b) Vital resistance to disease; 

(c) Recuperative power and response to treatment; 

(d) Expectancy of life. 

We judge the quality of the constitution of an indi- 
vidual according to the absence or presence in the iris of 
the various hereditary and acquired taints, encumbrances 
and defects. 

The life expectancy of an individual can be estimated 



44 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

by the quality of his constitution as revealed in the iris. 
Frequently, however, individuals with frail constitutions 
carefully nurse their health and outlive those with vigor- 
ous constitutions who recklessly squander their vitality. 
According to the showing in the iris of color, density 
and hereditary lesions, we distinguish four types of con- 
stitutions. The ideal, as before stated, we do not find in 
human beings. We therefore have not given it a place 
in the drawing (Fig. 6) which illustrates the four degrees 
of density. 

Four Degrees of Density 

(Fig. 6, p. 42) 

Section 1. Good. We notice only a few straight, whit- 
ish lines. This iris is sometimes found in infants and 
young children, and in sailors and mountaineers. 

Section 2. Common. The white lines are increased and 
more tangled. There are a few hereditary lesions and 
some dark lines indicating subacute, catarrhal conditions ; 
also some nerve rings. Individuals exhibiting this degree 
of density may enjoy good health in the usual sense of 
the term. 

Section 3. Poor. In this section white lines are more 
prominent and tangled. It contains several nerve rings. 
Signs of subacute and chronic conditions are more numer- 
ous. There are several closed defects. Individuals of this 
type are usually trying one "cure" after another. 

Section 4. Very Poor. In this section signs of chronic 
and destructive chronic conditions predominate. The 
nerve rings are partially dark. Closed lesions as in Sec- 
tion 3. Prognosis not promising. 

Hereditary and Congenital Lesions 

The iris indicates abnormal heredity not only in a gen- 
eral way by darkened color and by defective density, but 



DENSITY OF THE IEIS 45 

also in a more definite way by portrayal of hereditary 
organic defects in the iris of the infant, as reproduced 
in Fig. 6, Sec. 2, p. 42. In this iris we notice in addition 
to the whitish lines of acute eliminative activity and nerve 
rings, signs of organic lesions in the form of ovoid or 
spindle form shadings. In this manner we have frequently 
seen weak organs and parts in parents indicated in the 
iris of the offspring. 

My oldest son, born when I myself was in a very poor 
state of health, exhibited by these greyish signs or hered- 
itary lesions almost every weak part in my own body. 
Thus the diagnosis from the iris of the eye assists in solv- 
ing definitely one of the mooted questions of science — 
that of heredity. Orthodox science is decidedly uncertain 
and contradictory on the subject of heredity. All shades 
and grades of opinion prevail. Some authorities claim 
that there is nothing in heredity; others that weakened 
resistance only is hereditary; and still others maintain 
that organic weakness and defects of certain parts and 
organs may be transmitted to the offspring. That the 
latter are in the right is conclusively demonstrated by 
iridiagnosis. 

Under natural management of Nature's acute elimina- 
tive efforts, such as skin eruptions, diarrheas, fevers, ca- 
tarrhal conditions, etc., the signs of hereditary and con- 
genital organic defects gradually disappear from the iris 
of the infant. Under adverse management, however, they 
deepen and darken into chronic signs. 

The totality of these various hereditary, congenital, 
acute, chronic and destructive defects in the iris thus de- 
termine the degree of density and serve as a measure of 
the vitality and recuperative powers of the organism ; for 
it stands to reason that the more seriously vital parts and 
organs are affected, the lower must be the recuperative 
power of the entire organism. 



46 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

It now becomes clear what we meant by our words of 
solace to the dark eyed folk in the previous chapter. We 
see now that color alone does not determine the state of 
health, vitality or expectancy of life. Brown eyes by 
virtue of racial descent are normal and not indicative of 
disease. 

A person dark eyed as a result of physical abnormality 
but with an iris of good or common density may enjoy 
much better health and have a much better expectancy of 
life than a blue eyed person with a density of the fourth 
grade, indicating serious catarrhal and destructive defects 
in vital parts and organs. 

The question may be asked, "Is not this contradictory? 
You state that the color of the iris darkens with deteriora- 
tion in health, and consequently people with defective iris 
density should always have dark colored eyes. ,, 

I would answer to this that under certain influences 
destruction of vital parts may proceed much faster than 
the darkening of the color, but the latter always to some 
extent accompanies the former. 

Is it not a matter of common occurrence to see blue 
eyed athletes and prize-fighters endowed with magnificent 
physique and exuberant vitality fall victims to destructive 
wasting diseases in a few years' time under the influence 
of riotous living and destructive habits? 

Color, density and hereditary defects together are, there- 
fore, the indicators of hereditary, congenital and acquired 
tendencies toward health or disease. 

The Signs of the Second, or Acute Inflammatory Stage of 
Encumbrance 

(Pig. 14, p. 112, Series I, and Fig. 10, p. 95) 

From the very commencement of individual life, Nature 
endeavors to purify the infant body of its hereditary dis- 



DENSITY OF THE IRIS 47 

ease taints and morbid encumbrances, through acute elim- 
inative processes such as skin eruptions, purgings, acute 
catarrhal elimination in the form of coughs and mucous 
discharges from the nasal passages and other cavities of 
the body, and through various acute febrile diseases of 
childhood, such as measles, chickenpox, scarlet fever, etc. 

The universality of these acute diseases of infancy in- 
dicates their hereditary origin. If these eliminative efforts 
of Nature are not suppressed but are encouraged through 
natural management and treatment, then the little body 
will purify itself in course of time from hereditary and 
acquired encumbrances. The length of time required to 
accomplish this depends upon the nature of the morbid 
encumbrances and upon the degree of vitality and power 
of reaction. It may continue from a few months to a 
few years, or in serious cases the final purifying and heal- 
ing crises may not develop until the sixth — the first crisis 
year in the life of the child. 

These eliminative processes show in the iris of the new- 
born infant and growing child in the form of a white star 
which proceeds from the pupil outward in all directions, 
especially in those organs where elimination is most active, 
as, for instance, in the digestive tract and respiratory 
organs. (Fig. 10, p. 95, John's case.) 

The outer parts of the iris, outside of the white star, are 
usually of a dark violet, blackish blue or dark brown 
color, from which stands forth the white star around the 
pupil, which signifies acute forms of elimination, such as 
purging, skin eruptions, catarrhal discharges, febrile dis- 
eases, etc. 

As the system becomes purified and more normal the 
iris will approach more and more to the normal light blue 
or light brown color, according to the racial descent of 
the individual. If, on the other hand, Nature's acute 
eliminative efforts are checked or suppressed by wrong 



48 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

or, as we call it, unnatural treatment, then the iris as- 
sumes a still darker hue and condenses in the outer cir- 
cumference, where the blue or brown borders on the white 
cornea, in a dark ring or wreath. This was called by the 
first Iridologists "the scurf rim", because it makes its 
appearance after the suppression of "milk scurf" and 
other forms of cutaneous elimination. The formation of 
the scurf rim marks the beginning of the third or chronic 
stage of encumbrance and will be described under that 
heading. 

How the White Signs of Acute Inflammatory Lesions Are 
Formed in the Iris 

As before stated, all acute inflammatory and febrile 
conditions of the body are portrayed in the iris by white 
lines, streaks and clouds. When the entire organism is 
in a feverish condition, the eyes present the whitish, glis- 
tening appearance commonly noticed in high fevers and 
in states of great mental or nervous strain. Such states 
of physical and mental excitement accelerate the circula- 
tion and produce in the affected parts congestion, swelling 
and pain. 

Every acute inflammatory or febrile process is the result 
of a cleansing and healing effort of Nature. The white 
clouds in the eyes indicate where Nature 's healing forces, 
the "Vis Medicatrix Naturae", are at work. 

When acute inflammation runs its natural course 
through the five stages, then perfect .absorption and re- 
construction take place in the affected organ and the re- 
sulting condition is better than before the house cleaning. 
As the inflamed part or organ returns to normal, the white 
signs of inflammation disappear. (Fig. 14, p. 112, Series 
I,e.) 

The white signs of acute inflammatory conditions are 
produced anatomically in the following manner: 



DENSITY OF THE IRIS 49 

Congestion in any organ or part of the body reflexly 
gives rise to similar vaso motor changes in the correspond- 
ing organ area in the iris. The congestion in the stroma 
of the affected area presses the top layers of the iris above 
the level of the surface. The nerve and muscle fibres thus 
protruding above the surface (being colorless) appear as 
white, wavy lines which when grouped closely together 
resemble white streaks or clouds. When the congestion 
and swelling in the middle layers of the iris subside the 
nerve and muscle fibres of the top layer fall back into 
their normal positions, and then the surface of the iris 
resumes its normal blue or brown appearance. 

When, through injury or surgical treatment, muscular 
or other tissues have been torn, cut or broken crosswise, 
the corresponding lesions in the iris run diagonally or 
crosswise to the surface filaments of the iris, while lesions 
caused by internal inflammatory processes run parallel 
with the fibres of the iris. Lesions caused by various 
injuries are portrayed in Fig. 18 R, area 17, p. 216, and 
fig. 28 L, area 18, p. 232. 

The Signs of Subacute Inflammation 
(Pig. 14, Series II, page 112) 

Suppose Nature's healing and cleansing efforts are 
checked or suppressed by various means, such as exposure 
to wet and cold, lowered vitality, nerve exhaustion, or by 
ice packs, drugs or surgical treatment, then the acute 
eliminative process enters upon the stages of subacute 
and chronic destruction of cells and tissues. 

Let us take for example a case of acute catarrh of the 
bronchi and lungs which, under suppressive treatment, 
gradually enters upon the subacute and then upon the 
chronic stages of disease. All drugs which are usually 
the working principle in cough and catarrh remedies, 



50 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

lower the fever and cure ( ?) the catarrh, because they are 
astringents, opiates and protoplasmic poisons; because 
they contract and throttle the secreting cells, benumb and 
kill the red corpuscles, paralyze the respiratory centers 
and heart action — in short, because they suppress Nature 's 
acute healing efforts by lowering the vitality and paralyz- 
ing the vital functions. The pathological changes from 
the acute to the subacute stages are accompanied by atro- 
phy and sloughing of cells and tissues, and these are por- 
trayed in the iris by atrophy of structures in the corre- 
sponding organ areas. This produces the grey and dark 
shades of "subacute lesions". 

The Signs of the Third and Fourth Stages of Encumbrance 
(Fig. 14, page 112, Series III) 

When by suppressive treatment above described, the 
secreting cells of the bronchi are hindered in their labors, 
the elimination of mucous and pus is suppressed and the 
debris resulting from Nature's purifying processes is re- 
tained in the cells and tissues of the lungs, drug poisons 
are added to the disease poisons and these morbid accumu- 
lations become a source of continuous irritation. While 
the previous (acute) violent coughing and expectoration 
has subsided, there is now a low, hacking cough ; mucus 
accumulates in the bronchi during the night and is evacu- 
ated in the morning with great effort. Retention of mor- 
bid matter and lowered vitality gradually cause decay 
and destruction of lung tissue. These degenerative 
processes repeat themselves in slightly modified degrees 
in all chronic destructive diseases affecting other parts 
and organs. 

Simultaneously with this destruction of tissue in the 
lungs, similar changes take place in the corresponding 
areas of the iris. In these fields of the iris the tissues lose 



DENSITY OF THE IRIS 51 

their vitality, dry, shrivel and turn dark. As a result of 
this the white clouds of acute inflammatory lesions become 
intermingled with dark shades and streaks, as represented 
in Fig. 14, Series III. When examined with a strong 
magnifying glass it will be noticed that these dark areas 
are more or less depressed. In the advanced stages of 
destruction they deepen into holes, sometimes down to the 
black pigment layer. 

Closed Lesions 
(Fig. 14, Series III, c and f, Series II, g, page 112) 

If, under the adverse circumstances above described, 
Nature still succeeds, in an imperfect way, in healing the 
defects of the lungs or any other part of the body by the 
formation of scar tissue, the dark signs in the iris become 
circumscribed by and interwoven with white lines. The 
more perfect the healing, the more white lines are inter- 
woven with the dark and the more solid the white 
enclosures. 

These closed lesions correspond to the sear tissue in the 
body. At best they indicate weak spots in the system, 
which under certain provocations may at any time again 
open and become acute, subacute or chronic lesions. 

The Signs of the Fourth or Chronic Destructive Stage of 

Disease 

(Fig. 14, Series IV, p. 112) 

The last destructive stages of disease are marked by in- 
creasing atrophy and destruction of cells and tissues. 
When these degenerative changes take place in vital 
organs the chances of recovery become more and more 
precarious. In the iris the dark shadings of the subacute 
and chronic stages become more intensified and change 



52 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

into black shades or spots. Caverns in the lungs, for in- 
stance, appear frequently as small black dots in the lung 
areas of the iris (Fig. 27, area 9, left). 

The Signs in the Iris of Acute, Subacute and Chronic 
Disease Processes 

(Fig. 14, page 112) 

Series 1 represents the signs of acute inflammatory 
processes in various stages and degrees of intensity. Acute 
disease in the stages of greatest intensity — aggravation 
and destruction — shows in the corresponding organ areas 
as represented in Figures a, d and f. As the inflammatory 
process declines under natural treatment during the stages 
of absorption and reconstruction, the protruding fibres 
which cause the white signs fall back into their normal 
positions (page 49) and the white lines or clouds grad- 
ually disappear, as presented in Figures g, e and b. 

Figure c is a closed lesion in process of formation. We 
observe such lesions after pneumonia, pleurisy, nephritis 
or any other acute disease has been suppressed by ice or 
drugs. They stand for scar tissue. Under adverse con- 
ditions they may become acute again in a destructive way. 
Under natural living and treatment they may become 
acute (in healing crises) in a constructive way. Closed 
lesions of long standing and of a chronic nature show as 
represented in Series II Fig. g, and Series III Figs, c and f. 

The Figures in Series II represent inflammatory proc- 
esses in the subacute stages. These are transitory between 
the acute and chronic stages, as explained on page 49. 
Disease in the subacute stage yields readily to natural 
methods of living and of treatment- The figures from a 
to f portray lesions of increasing severity. 

The Figures in Series III represent the signs of chronic 
catarrhal conditions. The preponderance of black over 



DENSITY OF THE IRIS 53 

the white indicates increasing destruction and sloughing 
of tissues. 

The Figures a, b, d and e of Series IV represent the 
chronic inflammatory processes in the last destructive 
stages, entailing loss of substance. We meet with such 
signs only in people endowed with exceptionally robust 
constitutions. Most chronic patients succumb when the 
disease reaches the stages represented by the lesions 
shown in Series III. 

Figures c and f in Series IV are signs of cancer in the 
last stage. Sign f showed very plainly in the iris of a 
woman dying with cancer of the stomach. The black 
spot was located near the pupil. The white streamers 
extended to the margin of the iris. 

We found lesion c in the intestinal area of a patient 
suffering from cancer in the transverse colon. 

The Lymphatic Rosary 

(Color Plate, Fig. c, page 116, also Fig. 13, page 100, and 
Fig. 22, page 223) 

One of the most interesting signs of the third and fourth 
stages of disease is the lymphatic or typhoid rosary. I 
have given it this name because the sign appears in the 
form of white flakes in the outer rim of the iris, resembling 
the beads of a rosary. This circular area is marked on 
the chart of the iris "Lymphatic system' ' (see chart — 
frontispiece). Wherever the white flakes appear in this 
area they indicate inflammation and an engorged con- 
dition of the lymph nodes in the corresponding parts of 
the lymphatic system or, in the later stages, an atrophic 
condition of the lymphatic glands. Frequently we find 
the flakes discolored with the characteristic pigments of 
drug poisons. 



54 IRIDIAGNOSIS 



Distinction Between Lymphatic Rosary and the Sign of 

Arsenic 

The lymphatic rosary is not, as Liljequist says, the sign 
of arsenic, but since arsenic has a special affinity for the 
spleen and lymphatic system, the engorged condition of 
the lymph nodes and atrophy of the lymphatic glands 
may be and undoubtedly is in many cases the result of 
arsenical poisoning. The poison itself shows in white 
flakes resembling the beaten white of egg or snow flakes 
in the outer margin of the iris, therefore they may be easily 
mistaken for the lymphatic rosary (color plate, fig. b, p. 
116). The latter, however, appears only in the outermost 
rim of the iris, just inside of the scurf rim, in orderly 
arrangement like the beads of a rosary, while the white 
flakes of arsenic may appear singly or in irregular groups 
anywhere in the outer half of the iris. 

We speak of the "typhoid" rosary because in many in- 
stances we find the sign in the eyes of people who have 
suffered from typhoid fever, which on account of sup- 
pressive treatment by drugs or ice was not allowed to run 
its natural course and left the glandular structures of the 
intestines and of the system in general in a more or less 
engorged and atrophic condition. This explains why we 
find the typhoid rosary usually associated with pronounced 
malassimilation, malnutrition and with the last stages of 
destructive, wasting diseases. Such patients never fully 
recover from the effects of the disease and only too often 
drift into tuberculosis, pernicious anemia or other slow 
but fatal wasting diseases. When under natural treat- 
ment the inflammation in the intestines runs its natural 
course, and when during the last stages of inflammation 
sufficient time is allowed for the reconstruction of the 
intestinal membranes and glandular structures, recovery 



DENSITY OF THE IRIS 55 

is rapid and complete and the typhoid rosary does not 
appear in the iris. 

We find the rosary usually in the lower parts of the iris 
and as high up as the areas of lungs and neck (Figs. 13 and 
22), less frequently in the fields of the sensory organs or in 
the brain region. 

Radii Solaris 

These signs in the iris must not be mistaken for lesions. 
They are straight brown or black lines tapering to a fine 
point, radiating from the pupil or the sympathetic wreath 
to the outer margin of the iris. "We find them most fre- 
quently in brown eyes, only rarely in the blue. They are 
probably formed by a massing of dark color pigment on 
the surface of the iris. Iridologists have not been able to 
attach any special importance to these interesting signs. I 
have found in many instances that they disappeared with 
general improvement and the clearing up of the brown 
color of the iris. Radii Solaris are visible in Fig. 6, Sections 
3 and 4, p. 42. They are very plain in Fig. 9, p. 75, and 
Fig. 10, p. 95. 

In this connection it may be well to call attention to 
other conditions in the iris which might be mistaken for 
signs of lesions. In brown eyes, sometimes the blue un- 
derground shows in places through the brown surface. 
This indicates a good condition of the corresponding 
organs. In other instances the underlying blue or light 
brown shows dark in contrast with surrounding light or 
yellowish discolorations, and may thus be mistaken for 
dark lesions. 



CHAPTER VI 
NERVE RINGS 

(Figs. 7, p. 57, and 25, p. 226. Color plate, c-d-e-f , page 116) 

In addition to the white signs, Nature also portrays 
acute healing activity by white nerve rings and by the 
appearance of the white sympathetic wreath. 

Nerve rings are concentric rings shown in Fig. 7. They 
look in the iris as though they had been drawn with a 
white pencil. 

According to anatomists who have made a special study 
of the structure of the iris, these rings originate in the 
following manner: " During the dilation of the pupil the 
anterior layers of the iris are disposed in folds, the de- 
pressions between which constitute the so called ' contrac- 
tion grooves or furrows'. These grooves are deepened 
when the iris narrows and are almost entirely obliterated 
by being smoothed out as the iris broadens (pupil con- 
tracts)." Fig. 8 (B-B), p. 66, shows the contraction 
grooves as portrayed in standard works on anatomy. 

"While it may be true, as anatomy claims, that the 
grooves in the iris are caused by mechanical contractions 
and dilations of the iris curtain, we claim that these fluc- 
tuations in the size of the pupil are also brought about by 
an over irritated nervous system, by pain, emotional states, 
etc. This explains why nerve rings appear and disappear 
in the iris in strict correspondence with pathological con- 
ditions in the nervous system. At first they appear white 
(acute) on account of the fact that all pathological changes 
occur first in the acute form. (Color plate, e.) 

56 



NERVE RINGS 57 

White nerve rings indicate an irritated, over stimulated 
condition of the central nervous system or of certain parts 
of it. If they show in certain confined parts or organs 
only, they often indicate the approach or present activity 
of healing crises. When they appear in the brain region 
they indicate a disturbed, irritated or over stimulated 
condition of brain matter. This is usually accompanied 
by a nervous mental condition and insomnia. (Fig. 26.) 

This nerve irritation, when long continued, produces a 





Fig. 7. Concentric Nerve Rings. 

benumbed, semi-paralyzed condition of the nerves. These 
progressive atrophic conditions are portrayed in the iris 
by a gradual darkening and final blackening of the nerve 
rings. (Fig. 6, Sees. 3-4. Color plate, f, page 116.) 

When the nerve rings appear dark grey or black it 
means that the corresponding portions of the nervous sys- 
tem have passed from the acute, over irritated condition 
to the atonic or semi-atrophic. 

To illustrate — white nerve rings in bronchi and lungs 
might indicate acute bronchitis or pneumonia. White 
nerve rings in the brain might indicate hyperactivity, 
great irritability, hysteria and insomnia through irritation 
by systemic or drug poisons or by mental or emotional 
irritation. Black nerve rings in the same area would in- 



58 



IRIDIAGNOSIS 



dicate a benumbed or semi-paralyzed condition of brain 
matter, characterized by great weakness and prostration, 
loss of memory, numbness and partial paralysis of nervous 
and mental functions. 

It is most interesting to observe the gradual change of 
the black nerve rings into white, and in time the entire 
disappearance of the white rings under natural methods 
of living and treatment. I have seen the black nerve 
rings in the iris of many people afflicted with chronic in- 




Fig. 7a. The Zones a*s Determined by the Five Nerve Rings, the Sym- 
pathetic Wreath and the Division Between Stomach and Intestine. 

somnia or with serious mental diseases. As such cases 
yielded to natural treatment the black nerve rings always 
changed into white and finally disappeared entirely from 
the brain region. 

The Seven Zones of the Iris 

Iridologists so far have, in the worst cases of nerve 
derangement, discovered only four fully developed nerve 
rings. (Fig. 7, p. 57) 

These four nerve rings, from the pupil outward, form 
five consecutive zones. 

Imagine the iris divided lengthwise and the nerve rings 
straightened out and you will have the five zones as in 
zone therapy for each half of the body. 



NEKVE RINGS 59 

If we count the areas of stomach and bowels as one zone 
each, and add them to the five outer zones, then we have 
again the mystical number seven. Furthermore we find 
that the various organs center in one or several of these 
zones ; thus the stomach is located in the first zone when 
we count from the pupil outward, the intestines in the 
second zone, the pancreas, kidneys and heart in the third 
zone, the respiratory organs in the fourth zone, and so 
forth, as outlined in Fig. 7a, p. 58. 

Sympathetic Wreath 

(See Chart and Fig. 8, p. 66, fig. 11, p. 96, fig. 27, p. 231) 

According to Jackson's Anatomy, "the surface radial 
ridges coming from the edge of the pupil and those radiat- 
ing from the periphery of the iris, meet in a zig-zag ele- 
vated ridge concentric with the pupil called the ' corona 
iridesV' (Fig. 8-D, page 66) 

This elevated ridge is identical with the area of the 
sympathetic nervous system in the iris. 

"Since these ridges correspond to the situation of the 
blood vessels of the stroma, the corona irides represents 
the location of the minor circle" (of bloodvessels). (Fig. 
3, page 19) 

From the Nature Cure viewpoint, the manifestations 
of disease occur as vasomotor changes, which are con- 
trolled by the sympathetic nervous system. This explains 
why the blood vessels in the iris and the. "sympathetic 
wreath" are identical in location. 

Since the sympathetic wreath forms the outer boundary 
of the intestinal zone, its widening and branching corre- 
sponds to a flabby, flaccid, atonic, dilated condition of the 
intestines. Such a relaxed condition of the intestines 
results in constipation due to the fact that the musculature 
of the intestinal walls is too weak to contract on and to 



60 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

propel the food residue (enfeebled peristalsis). (Fig. 19, 
p. 218) 

From this it is plain that in such a condition enemas are 
particularly contra-indicated, because the habitual injec- 
tion of warm water still further dilates the already weak- 
ened intestinal walls. The indicated spinal manipulation 
(aside from correcting specific lesions) is to treat the 
reflex center in the spine which contracts the intestines — 
i. e., the second lumbar. 

On the other hand, a small, narrowed sympathetic 
wreath signifies a correspondingly spastic, over irritation 
of the intestines. This brings about spastic constipation 
with straining at the stool. The indicated spinal treat- 
ment in such a case is diametrically opposed to the treat- 
ment for the relaxed condition, i. e., stimulate the center 
(the eleventh dorsal), which dilates the intestinal mus- 
culature. 

Osteopaths, chiropractors and naprapaths are sometimes 
at a loss to account for the fact that in some cases of con- 
stipation the patient may immediately respond to adjust- 
ment, whereas in other cases the patient apparently gets 
worse until the spinal lesion has been corrected. 

To illustrate : Suppose in a case of flaccid constipation 
where the iris shows a widened sympathetic wreath and 
the physical examination a distended condition of the 
bowels with gas formation, the spinal lesion happens to 
be at the second lumbar (the reflex from which center 
contracts the intestines), adjustment will not only tend 
to correct the mechanical lesion but will also elicit nerve 
reflexes which contract the distended bowel wall. In 
such cases improvement is noticed long before the spinal 
lesion is corrected. 

To illustrate the opposite condition: A patient with 
spastic constipation has a spinal lesion in the second lum- 
bar. In this case adjustments on account of the reflexes of 



NERVE RINGS 61 

contraction which they elicit will temporarily aggravate 
the condition — spastic constipation — until the lesion is 
corrected. 

In order to prevent these temporary aggravations, ad- 
justments in this case should be followed by treatment of 
the eleventh dorsal so as to dilate the intestines. 

We find the contracted sympathetic wreath and " pin- 
head " pupil in many types of paralysis, while the dis- 
tended, highly mobile pupil is indicative of nervous irri- 
tation and hyper-sensitiveness, as caused, for instance, by 
intestinal parasites in children. 

The Significance of Black and White in the Eye 

Symbolism has always identified white with the con- 
structive principle in Nature and black with the destruc- 
tive principle. White are the angels of light, black the 
demons of darkness. White is the emblem of youth, joy, 
peace and happiness ; black symbolizes old age, war, death, 
destruction and mourning. 

In her picture language in the iris, Nature confirms and 
upholds humanity's instinctive perceptions. She paints 
all constructive processes in white and destructive proc- 
esses in black. In this way she confirms the fundamental 
law of cure — all acute conditions are the result of Nature 's 
healing efforts. 

White Signs the Heralds of Healing Crises 

When chronic and destructive processes in the body 
have painted in the iris the dark shades and black signs 
of destruction or of loss of substance and the patient has 
been "given up" by allopathic practitioners as incurable, 
when as a last resort he has adopted natural methods of 
healing and is approaching the crisis periods, — then the 
white signs of acute activity in the dark regions of the 
iris are as welcome to the sight of the natural therapeutist 



62 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

as the white flag of surrender on the fortress wall to the 

besieging army. 

Thus the white signs in the iris, as well as the white 
nerve rings, are not only indicators of acute disease but 
in chronic cases they become the heralds of approaching 
healing crises. 

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said 2,000 years 
ago that it was "the duty of the physician to foresee these 
changes, to assist or not to hinder them," so that "the 
sick man might conquer the disease with the help of the 
physician". The times at which crises were to be ex- 
pected were naturally looked for with anxiety; and it 
was a cardinal point in the Hippocratic system to foretell 
them with precision. With the limited knowledge of diag- 
nostic science at the command of the disciples of Hip- 
pocrates this was an exceedingly difficult task. 

Iridiagnosis not only proves the truth of the teachings 
of the great master of medicine, but also makes it com- 
paratively easy to carry out his injunction, to foretell and 
describe the coming healing crises. 

The manager of a great sanitarium in this country, 
scouting the idea of healing crises, says in one of his works 
that some "tyros" in the art of healing say a great deal 
about healing crises, but that the violent reactions which 
they produce are merely the results of harsh treatment. 

I have treated and cured many patients who were dis- 
charged from this and other sanitariums during the first 
six weeks of improvement because the doctors in such 
institutions were under the mistaken impression that the 
first improvement was a cure, but in many instances these 
"cured" ones hardly reached home when healing crises 
made their appearance. Not understanding the meaning 
of these reactions, the patients were frightened back to 
the "flesh-pots of Egypt" and to the pills of Dr. Dopem. 

I have found that others who remained in these insti- 



NERVE RINGS 63 

tutions during the first improvement until the crisis period, 
not having been instructed or warned about the signifi- 
cance of these natural reactions, became greatly alarmed, 
packed their trunks and secretly left for home, believing 
more firmly than ever in the efficacy of drugs and the 
surgeon's knife. The following may serve as a typical 
example. 

Some time ago an elderly woman visited a lodge sister, 
who was under our care and treatment. The visitor kindly 
volunteered the information that she had undergone "this 
kind of treatment, but that it had done her no good". 
When questioned about her experience she said that for 
many years she had suffered with "bowel trouble" and 
that her family physician had recommended an operation 
for appendicitis. Dreading the operation, she went in- 
stead to a renowned sanitarium supposed to be working 
along natural lines of healing. For a few months Her 
improvement was remarkable, but then all at once the old 
pains and inflammations returned. She concluded that 
the "drugless treatment" was not the thing for her, re- 
turned to Chicago and at once had the offending appendix 
removed. 

"Since that time," she added defiantly, "it has never 
troubled me any more." 

Looking at her enlarged finger joints, I remarked: 
"Since the operation you have been badly constipated." 

"Yes, that is so." 

"Since that time you have also suffered a great deal 
with rheumatism." This she also confirmed. 

I endeavored to explain to her that the removal of the 
appendix simply aggravated chronic constipation; that 
this in turn was the cause of rheumatism ; that it would 
have been better for her if she had stayed in the sani- 
tarium, weathered the crises and had then been cured 
permanently of her intestinal ailments. This would have 



64 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

meant restoration of perfect function, normal action of 
the bowels and kidneys, and freedom from rheumatism. 

These suggestions she vehemently resented. She knew 
her appendix was * ' cured [ ' and the rheumatism had noth- 
ing to do with it. Her doctor had told her "the rheumatiz 
was caused by the damp Chicago climate". 

An old proverb says, "Against stupidity even the gods 
battle in vain." I left her to enjoy in peace her chronic 
constipation and her "rheumatiz". 

If the doctors in the great sanitarium had understood 
the laws of crises, they could have saved, in this one as 
well as in many other cases, the reputation of their insti- 
tution and of natural treatment — as well as the appendix 
of the patient; and they could have spared her a great 
deal of chronic suffering. 

It would have been impossible for me to hold one half 
of my chronic patients through the trying times of acute 
reaction if I had not been able, from the records in the 
iris, to foretell and to describe the future healing crises. 



CHAPTER VII 

THE SCURF RIM 

(Fig. 8, page 66; fig. 18, page 216) 

The name Scurf Rim was applied by the first Iridolo- 
gists to the dark ring often visible in the outer iris of the 
eye, because it usually appears and is always intensified 
after suppression of milk crust, scurf, sycotic and other 
eczematous eruptions on the heads and bodies of infants 
and children. 

The outer rim of the iris, where the iris color joins the 
white of the eyeball (sclera) corresponds in the body to 
the cutaneous surface, the skin. If the skin is normal, 
healthy and active, the rim of the iris shows no abnormal 
discolorations. If, however, the skin is weak, enervated, 
atonic, or in anemic and atrophic condition, there appears 
in the rim of the iris the dark scurf ring. Sometimes this 
dark ring is complete all around the iris (Fig. 18, p. 216), 
sometimes it appears only in certain portions or segments 
of it. (Fig. 9, p. 75) 

Suppression of skin eruptions, mercurial inunctions, hot 
bathing, steam baths, heavy, dense clothing, coddling, or 
anything else which weakens skin action, tends to inten- 
sify the scurf rim. 

Hereditary disease, as we have learned in former arti- 
cles, is indicated in the iris of infants by a general darken- 
ing of color. Sometimes, however, in the offspring of 
scrofulous, psoric or mercurial parents the scurf rim also 
is, shortly after birth, more or less distinctly visible. 

Nature endeavors to purify the tender, plastic body of 

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66 



IEIDIAGNOSIS 



its hereditary taints and acquired morbid encumbrances, 
not only through the natural channels of elimination, but 
also by the various forms of acute infantile diseases, such 
as diarrheas, skin eruptions, colds, catarrhs, febrile dis- 
eases, etc. 

Nature's favorite means of purifying the infant organ- 
ism are skin eruptions on head and body. If these are 




Fig. 8. Section of Iris, 

suppressed by salves, drugs, drying powders, oils, creams, 
soaps, warm bathing, warm, dense clothing, and coddling, 
the scurf rim appears, or, if already present, becomes 
more prominent, indicating that skin action has been weak- 
ened and paralyzed by such unnatural treatment. (Fig. 18.) 
It would probably be going too far to attribute the scurf 
rim always to suppression. As before intimated, the dark 



THE SCUEF RIM 67 

rim may be the sign of a weak and inactive skin not 
virile enough to produce eruptions. Such an individ- 
ual, however, has but few chances to survive in the battle 
of life, and usually succumbs to the first serious disease 
crisis. 

On the other hand, it is very interesting to observe how 
the scurf rim diminishes and gradually disappears when, 
under influence of natural diet, air, sun and light baths, 
cold water treatment, massage, neurotherapy, etc., the 
cuticle becomes alive and active, and through skin erup- 
tions, furuncles, carbuncles, etc., throws off the latent 
chronic taints. 

The scurf rim is, therefore, a reliable indicator of the 
normal or abnormal condition of the skin. This becomes 
of eminent importance in diagnosis and prognosis when 
we consider how necessary is normal activity of the skin 
to the maintenance of health and to life itself. 

This is due to the fact that the skin, besides containing 
the superficial organs of touch, has two very important 
functions — heat radiation and excretion. Our tempera- 
ture constantly stands near 99 degrees F., no matter 
whether we are at the equator or in the polar regions; 
whether we swelter in the heat of summer or shiver in the 
cold of winter. Deviations of a few degrees either way 
from the normal heat are symptoms of severe illness. The 
body is able to maintain this equality of temperature only 
by the instrumentality of the lungs and of the skin. If 
the skin is clogged, sluggish, tense or atrophied, then 
inner blood pressure and temperature rise too high. If 
the skin is too weak or relaxed, then the loss by radiation 
is too great and as a consequence inner blood pressure 
and temperature sink too low. If heat radiation is inter- 
fered with, as in high fevers, through uric acid or patho- 
gen poisoning, or through atrophy and clogging of the 
skin, there results in the interior organs a tendency to 



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IRIDIAGNOSIS 



congestion, high blood pressure, catarrhal, feverish and 
inflammatory conditions, which may cause coma and 
death. 

It will be of interest here to study the elimination of 
morbid matter from the human body as it takes place 
through the organs of depuration. The principal waste 
product of carbohydrate metabolism is C0 2 — carbon- 
dioxide; of protein metabolism, CO(NH 2 ) 2 — urea. Im- 
perfect oxidation of carbohydrates and protein matter 
may result in the formation of many kinds of acids and 
ptomains. These must be neutralized and eliminated in 
the form of salts. The various organs eliminate normally 
only the following waste products : 



Kidneys 


Lungs 


Skin 


Bowels 


NaC0 3 


Large amounts 


Small amounts 


Indigestible 


Large amounts 


of C0 2 . 


of C0 2 . N o 


and undigested 


of urea, salts, 


Trace of salts. 


urea. Consider- 


foods, and oth- 


water. 


Variable 


a b 1 e amounts 


er waste and 




amounts of wa- 


of salts — one- 


morbid prod- 




ter. No urea. 


third of amount 


ucts. The lat- 






of salts elimi- 


ter particularly 






nated through 


through the va- 






the kidneys. 


rious forms of 






Considerable 


diarrhea. 






amounts of wa- 








ter. 


i 



When the system is in an abnormal or diseased condi- 
tion, encumbered with large amounts of waste and morbid 
matter, then the excretory organs will eliminate many 
other kinds of waste and morbid materials besides the 
normal products of excretion mentioned in the foregoing 
diagram — as, for instance, uric acid and indican in the 
urine, etc. 

It will be noticed that, normally, the various excretory 



THE SCURF RIM 69 

products are few and simple in form. It is the function of 
micro-organisms, including microzyma, bacteria and para- 
sites, to reduce the highly complex acids, ptomains, leuko- 
mains and xanthins of normal and abnormal metabolism 
into simple compounds suitable for elimination through 
the excretory organs. 

In this connection I refer the reader to the pathogenic 
theory of inflammation, Volume I, Chapter IX, according 
to which inflammation is an effort of Nature to reduce or 
oxidize through bacterial action highly complex albumin- 
ous waste (pathogen) into simpler forms more easily 
eliminated. 

The healthy skin excretes considerable amounts of car- 
bon dioxide and numerous other systemic poisons in the 
forms of gases and salts. It does, therefore, a large amount 
of vicarious work for lungs and kidneys. If the action of 
the skin is inhibited by sudden chilling, pathogenic ob- 
struction or by other enervating, paralyzing influences, 
then the internal organs of elimination, in addition to their 
own, have to do the work of the skin and become con- 
gested and overworked, a condition which results in acute 
catarrhal elimination. That is, the internal membranous 
linings endeavor to eliminate the pathogenic materials in 
the form of mucous excretion. But the most important 
function of the skin, on which depends life itself, is that 
of heat radiation in connection with the heat regulating 
centers in the medulla and probably in the pituitary gland. 

If by burns, scalds or by other causes one fourth of the 
cutaneous surface has become inactive or is destroyed, 
death is the inevitable result. 

We can now understand why the scurf rim, in a meas- 
ure, stands for what we call the scrofulous constitution 
because it betokens an inactive, weakened skin system, 
suppression of hereditary taints, weakened circulation, 
pathogenic encumbrances, cold extremities, pale, clammy 



70 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

skin and therefore a tendency to chronic catarrhal con- 
ditions, all of which prepare the congenial soil for tuber- 
culosis in later life. 

This brings out in full relief the immense importance in 
the cure of diseases of the nude air, sun and light baths, 
cold water treatment, massage, neurotherapy, of porous 
or no underwear, light clothing, nude sleeping, out of 
door sleeping, etc. 

Heavy, dense clothing alone is sufficient to enervate and 
suppress the natural eliminative activity of the skin, be- 
cause it prevents free ventilation and keeps the body 
bathed day and night in its own poisonous exhalations. 
This causes and aggravates a multitude of catarrhal ail- 
ments and acid diseases. 

Often we hear remarks like the following: "I cannot 
understand why my face is full of blotches, pimples and 
eruptions when my body is perfectly pure and clean. " 

There is no mystery to this very common phenomenon. 
The face in such cases has to do the work for the rest of 
the cutaneous surface because coming in contact with 
light, air, rain and cold, the face is covered by the only 
piece of skin on the body that is healthy and capable of 
active elimination. 

If these blemished ones would expose their bodies as 
freely as their hands and face to the health-giving, stimu- 
lating influences of air, light and water, elimination would 
become normal and general all over the body, and the 
complexion would soon clear up and become as pure and 
beautiful as that of a child. This we constantly prove in 
our work. Nature Cure is therefore the best and most 
rational of all cosmetics. 

As explained in a previous chapter on density — dark 
discolorations, signs and spots stand for lack of blood, 
sluggish circulation, chronic catarrhal conditions and de- 
struction of tissues in the corresponding parts and organs 



THE SCURF RIM 71 

of the body ; therefore the dark scurf rim is the sign of an 
enervated, vitiated skin, of poor surface circulation and 
of defective elimination. 

Anatomists have observed the scurf rim and attribute 
it to a weak, relaxed and shrivelled condition of the outer 
rim of the iris and to actual perforations of the surface 
layer, but they fail to give the causes of this abnormal 
condition. Fig. 8, page 66, is copied from a standard work 
on anatomy. It shows the scurf rim (A), nerve rings (con- 
traction grooves) (B), itch spots (C), sympathetic wreath 
(D) and chronic destructive lesions (E). 

Pathogen and Skin Action 

The question may be asked, how is it that persons with- 
out a scurf rim often suffer from defective skin action? 

In my explanations of pathogen obstruction in the capil- 
lary circulation I have brought out the fact that elimina- 
tion through the skin may be diminished and checked by 
precipitation of uric acid or pathogen in the surface capil- 
laries, the result of which in extreme cases would be 
complete cessation of elimination through the skin, and 
cessation of heat radiation. 

Weakening or suppression of the surface circulation by 
uric acid deposits in the capillaries (collemia) may occur 
in people with otherwise good skin action as a result of 
faulty diet or disease of the kidneys. The degree of colloid 
or pathogen precipitation in the surface blood vessels may 
be accurately determined in the following manner by the 
reflux test : 

Press a finger tip on the skin. If the white patch thus 
produced fills up with blood immediately, say in three or 
four half -seconds, then the circulation is active and nor- 
mal. If, however, the reflux of blood into the white patch 
occupies from four to twenty half-seconds, then the cir- 
culation is impeded by colloid or mucoid precipitates. 



72 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

The degree of occlusion can be estimated by the length of 
the reflux. 

How to Efface the Scurf Rim 

Massing of the scurf rim in certain segments of the 
outer iris is always a sign of weakness and morbid encum- 
brance in the corresponding part of the body. If the scurf 
rim is very marked in the lower half of the iris and if the 
upper part, especially in the region of the brain, shows 
the whitish signs and clouds of inflammatory conditions, 
this is an indication that the circulation in the cutaneous 
surface and in the extremities is weak and sluggish and 
that as a consequence the inner blood pressure, especially 
in heart, lungs and brain, is abnormally high. (Fig. 13, 
page 100) 

This may mean cold extremities, sluggish circulation in 
the portal system (stomach, bowels, liver and spleen), 
swollen veins on the legs, hemorrhoids, neuralgias, tooth- 
aches, colds, and catarrhs of the throat, lung and nose, 
and high blood pressure or congestion in the heart, lungs 
and brain. 

Prom this it is apparent that in order to cure these 
various ills it is necessary to re-establish the normal activ- 
ity of the skin, and this is best accomplished by the nude 
air baths, cold water baths, light, porous or no underwear, 
massage, neurotherapy and by a low protein diet free 
from pathogenic materials. 

1 'But, " I hear you say, "I cannot stand cold water. I 
might just as well die. Mr. So-and-So may stand it, but it 
would certainly kill me. Unless I wear the warmest of 
clothing I freeze to death." Not so, Madam! Keeping 
warm is not a matter of piling on clothes, but of good skin 
action and reaction. "We cannot make a weak arm strong 
by carrying it tied up in a sling. We must exercise it. 
We cannot make a weak, enervated skin strong and active 



THE SCUBF RIM 73 

by coddling it and by burying it under piles of dense, 
heavy underwear and clothes. People come to us in the 
middle of summer wearing one or two thick suits of under- 
wear, and then are shivering and catching cold in every 
passing breath of air. 

A few weeks of cold water treatment, light, sun and air 
baths,' massage and neurotherapy bring new life and blood 
into the surface, and the skin takes on the pink and rosy 
hue of life. Snakelike, these patients shed skin after skin 
of underwear, chest protectors, woolen stockings, gloves, 
overcoats, and the dead surface cuticle of their bodies, 
and then begin to enjoy contact with the life-giving ele- 
ments. Like the Indian they can say, ' * My body all face. ' ' 
The cuticle of their bodies has become as active, alive and 
immune to heat and cold as that of their faces. 

Many patients who came to us in such a weakened, sen- 
sitive condition are now taking regularly every day in the 
crisp January and February air nude air baths. They do 
this not because we advise them to do so, for we refrain 
from prescribing such heroic treatment, but because they 
enjoy the sport. 

Regeneration of the skin under a natural regimen is 
accompanied by gradual decrease and often by a com- 
plete disappearance of the scurf rim. When the skin 
becomes active and alive, fine white lines become visible 
in the dark rim and these broaden out gradually into 
light patches. 

Since the scurf rim usually results from suppressive 
treatment and weakening, enervating influences which 
produce chronic conditions, it belongs as a sign in the iris 
to the third stage of encumbrance. 



CHAPTER Vin 

ITCH OR PSORA SPOTS IN THE IRIS 

(Fig. 9, p. 75, Color plate, a and b, page 116) 

In civilized countries, especially in those bordering on 
the Mediterranean Sea, where suppression of itch and 
other skin eruptions is commonly practiced, about ten 
per cent of all eyes show in the iris sharply denned dark 
brown spots ranging in size from that of a pinhead to 
that of a buckshot. (Fig. 8, also Fig. 9, and Color plate, a) 
These spots Iridology designates as itch or psora spots, 
because they appear after the suppression of itchy erup- 
tions or eczemata and of psoric parasites (pediculi capitis 
and pubis). 

I have observed in many instances that suppression of 
psoric eruptions resulted in formation or enlargement of 
the scurf rim instead of in the appearance of itch spots. 
This is probably due to the weakening of the skin by sup- 
pressive agents, such as mercurial or other poisonous 
salves, etc. 

The word '* psora' ' was adopted by Hahnemann, the 
father of Homeopathy, from a Greek word signifying 
"itching", and he applied the name to certain skin dis- 
eases which are characterized by intolerable itching. 

Probably no other question in medical science has given 
rise to so much controversy as Hahnemann's much dis- 
puted theory of psora. It is therefore very interesting to 
observe in how far the eye confirms this theory of heredi- 
tary and chronic disease and in how far it contradicts the 
same, 

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ITCH OR PSORA SPOTS IN THE IRIS 75 

The Theory of Psora 

For one hundred years "Similia similibus curantur", 
the fundamental law of homeopathy, has been the only 
fixed point in the chaos of constantly changing medical 
theories, and in a perverted form under the guise of vac- 
cination, antitoxin, serum and organ therapy, this great 
law of cure has been adopted even by the allopathic school 
of medicine. 

Comparatively few of his closest friends and followers 
accepted Hahnemann's theory of psora. This part of his 




Fig. 9. 

teachings was unmercifully ridiculed by his opponents 
and silently ignored even by those who were believers in 
and exponents of the law of < 'Similia M . 

Briefly stated, the psoric theory claims that age long 
persistent suppression of itchy, parasitic skin eruptions 
and of gonorrheal and syphilitic diseases has encumbered 
" civilized " humanity with three well defined hereditary 
taints or miasms. These were named by Hahnemann 
psora or itch, sycosis or gonorrhea, and syphilis. He fur- 
ther claimed that the greater part of chronic diseases had 
their origin in these hereditary miasms and that many 
acute diseases are merely external palliative manifesta- 
tions of these internal latent, chronic taints, 



76 IRIBIAGNOSIS 

Scurf Rim and Hereditary Psora 

(Fig. 8A, page 66, scurf rim) 
(Fig. 8C, psora or itch spots) , 

Darkening of the iris color and the scurf rim stand for 
those conditions which Hahnemann called "hereditary 
psora' ' and which are usually spoken of as hereditary 
scrofula. The name psora covers also those disease condi- 
tions which result later in life from the suppression of 
itchy eczema, hives, shingles, scabies (itch) and of other 
psoric parasites. The itch or psora spots are never seen in 
the eyes of the new born, but only later in life when psoric 
eruptions and parasites have been suppressed by means of 
sulphur, zinc or mercurial ointments, by hot water, steam 
or hot air bathing, or by any other agent or combination 
of methods. 

To recapitulate : Darkening of the iris color and scurf 
rim stand for the long list of hereditary ailments which 
Hahnemann calls hereditary psora, commonly known as 
"scrofulous diathesis". The dark brown itch or psora 
spots and the scurf rim stand for the effects of suppressed 
itch and psoric parasites. I have observed that blue eyed 
parents suffering from suppressed itch, as shown by the 
itch spots in their eyes, usually have brown eyed or ' ' scurf 
rimmed " children. These revelations of the iris confirm 
Hahnemann's statement that suppression of acute itch 
or scabies creates hereditary psora and chronic constitu- 
tional psora in the offspring. 

Before we proceed in our study of the itch spots in the 
eye it will be instructive and interesting to quote a few 
passages from Hahnemann's "Chronic Diseases" and to 
learn just what he means by psora and suppression of 
psora. Our esteem and admiration for this wonderful man 
will be greatly increased when we reflect that he discov- 
ered, by keenness of intuition and by marvelous powers 



ITCH OR PSOEA SPOTS IN THE IRIS 77 

of concentration and observation, what we today see so 
easily and plainly revealed by iridiagnosis. 

QUOTATIONS FEOM HAHNEMANN'S "CHRONIC 

DISEASES" 

Page 38 

"Thus this eruption, externally reduced in cultivated countries 
to a common itch, could be much more easily removed from the skin 
through various means, so that with the medical external treatment 
since introduced, especially in the middle and higher classes, 
through baths, washes and ointments of sulphur and lead, and by 
preparations of copper, zinc and mercury, the external manifesta- 
tions of Psora on the skin were often so quickly suppressed, and 
are so now, that in most cases, either of children or of grown 
persons, the history of itch infection may remain undiscovered. 

"But the state of mankind was not improved thereby; in many 
respects it grew far worse. For, although in ancient times the 
eruption of Psora appearing as leprosy was very troublesome to 
those suffering from it, owing to the lancinating pains in and the 
violent itching all around the tumors and scabs, the rest of the 
body enjoyed a fair share of general health. This was owing to 
the obstinately persistent eruption on the skin, which served as a 
substitute for the internal Psora. 

Page 39 

PSORA has thus become the most infectious and most general 
of all the chronic miasmas. For the miasm has usually been com- 
municated to others before the one from whom it emanates has 
asked for or received any external repressive remedy against his 
itching eruption (lead-water, ointment of the white precipitate of 
mercury), and without confessing that he had an eruption of itch, 
often even without knowing it himself; yea, without even the 
physician's or surgeon's knowing the exact nature of the eruption, 
which has been repressed by the lotion of lead, etc. . . . 

' * Mankind, therefore, is worse off from the change in the external 
form of the Psora — from leprosy down to the eruption of itch — not 
only because this is less visible and more secret and therefore more 
frequently infectious, but also especially because the Psora, now 
mitigated externally into a mere itch and on that account more 
generally spread, nevertheless still retains unchanged its original 
dreadful nature. Now, after being more easily repressed, the dis- 
ease grows all the more unperceived within, and so, in the last 



78 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

three centuries, after the destruction of its chief symptom (the ex- 
ternal skin eruption) it plays the sad role of causing innumerable 
secondary symptoms, i. e., it originates a legion of chronic diseases, 
the source of which physicians neither surmise nor unravel. 

Page 42 

"So great a flood of numberless nervous troubles, painful ail- 
ments, spasms, ulcers (cancers), adventitious formations, dyspa- 
sias, paralyses, consumptions and cripplings of soul, mind and body 
were never seen in ancient times when the Psora mostly confined 
itself to its dreadful cutaneous symptom, leprosy. Only during the 
last few centuries has mankind been flooded with these infirmities, 
owing to the causes just mentioned. 

"It was thus that PSORA became the most universal mother of 
chronic diseases. 

Page 43 

"It is incredible to what an extent modern physicians of the 
common school have sinned against the welfare of humanity, since, 
with scarcely an exception, teachers of medicine and the more 
prominent modern physicians and medical writers have laid down 
the rule and taught it as an infallible theorem that: 'Every erup- 
tion of itch is merely a local ailment of the skin, in which ailment 
the remaining organism takes no part at all, so that it may and must 
be driven away from the skin at any time and without any scruple, 
through local applications of sulphur ointment or of the yet more 
active ointment of Jasser, through sulphur fumigations, by solu- 
tions of lead and zinc, but most quickly by the precipitates of 
mercury. If the eruption is once removed from the skin everything 
is well and the person is restored and the whole disease removed. 
Of course, if the eruption is neglected and allowed to spread upon 
the skin, then it may eventually turn out that the malignant mat- 
ter may find opportunity to insinuate itself through the absorbent 
vessels into the mass of humors and thus corrupt the blood, the 
humors and the health. Then, indeed, man may finally be afflicted 
with ailments from these maglignant humors, though these might 
soon again be removed from the body by purgatives and abluents; 
but through prompt removal of the eruption from the skin all 
sequelae are prevented and the internal body remains entirely 
healthy.' " 

Page 44 

"These horrible untruths have not only been, and are still being 
taught, but they are also being carried out in practice. The conse- 



ITCH OB PSORA SPOTS IN THE IRIS 79 

quence ia that at the present day the patients in all the most cele- 
brated hospitals, even in those countries and cities that seem most 
enlightened, as well as the private itch patients of the lower and 
higher classes, the patients in all the penitentiaries and orphan 
asylums, in other civil and military hospitals, wherever such erup- 
tions are found — in short, the innumerable multitude of patients, 
without exception, are treated, not only by physicians unknown to 
fame, but by all, even those most celebrated, with the above men- 
tioned external remedies, using perhaps at the same time large 
doses of flowers of sulphur, and strong purgatives (to cleanse the 
body, as they say). These physicians think that the more quickly 
these eruptions are driven from the skin the better. Then they 
dismiss the patients from their treatment as cured, with brazen 
assurance and the declaration that everything is now all right, 
without regarding or being willing to notice the ailments which 
sooner or later are sure to follow ; t. e., the Psora which shows itself 
from within in a thousand different diseases. If the deceived 
wretches then sooner or later return with the malady following 
unavoidably on such a treatment; e.g., with swellings, obstinate 
pains in one part or another, with hypochondriac or hysterical 
troubles, gout, consumption, tubercular phthisis, continual or spas- 
modic asthma, blindness, deafness, paralysis, caries of the bones, 
ulcers (cancer), spasms, hemorrhages, diseases of the mind and 
soul, etc., the physicians imagine that they have before them some- 
thing entirely new and treat it again and again according to the 
old routine of their therapeutics in a useless and hurtful manner, 
directing their medicines against phantom diseases; i. e., against 
causes invented by them for the ailments as they appear, until 
the patient, after many years' suffering continually aggravated, is 
at last freed from their hands by death, the end of all earthly 
maladies. ' ' 

Is the Itch Disease Local and of Purely Parasitic Origin or 
Is It Constitutional? 
When the microscope revealed a minute, ugly looking 
parasite as the apparent cause of itch eruptions, allopathy 
jubilantly declared that Hahnemann's theory of psora was 
thereby finally disposed of. The little mite which is 
blamed for this disagreeable disease has been named by 
science, the acarus scabies, or sarkoptes hominis. 



80 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

Under the microscope the parasite presents a ferocious 
appearance, having a body somewhat resembling that of a 
tortoise with the legs of a spider. His body is studded 
with strong bristles by means of which he braces and sup- 
ports himself in the flesh of his victim when burrowing 
his tunnels into the lower layers of the skin. It is the 
prick of these bristles in the flesh and the work of his 
voracious maw which causes the intolerable irritation 
peculiar to the disease. The insect is devoid of eyes and 
nervous system ; it is all mouth, teeth and stomach. The 
male is the smaller and burrows in the surface layers of 
the skin, while the female is larger and digs its shafts deep 
down into the cutis vera, or true skin, where it taps and 
sucks the minute blood vessels. 

Orthodox science says: "Itch is never found without 
the acarus scabies, therefore the latter must be the cause 
of the disease. " Since the discovery of bacteria allopathy 
has extended this local and parasitic conception of disease 
so as to embrace almost every known pathological condi- 
tion. As a natural corollary of this theory, germ killing 
has become the basis of modern medical science. 

Iridolo gy, however, conclusively proves that Hahne- 
mann after all was right and that allopathy is in error 
when it claims that the killing of the itch microbe and 
of the vermin which infest head and pubis, effectually 
terminates these diseases. 

For, after the killing of these parasites by means of sul- 
phurous and mercurial ointments and other agents, 
sharply defined brown spots appear in certain parts of 
the iris and it has been conclusively proved that the areas 
in the iris displaying these psora spots correspond to the 
parts and organs of the body in which, after external 
suppression, the psoric poisons have concentrated. 

We are often asked, "How can you prove that the scurf 
rim or brown spots in the iris have any relation to sup- 
pression of skin eruptions, itch parasites and vermin ?" 



ITCH OR PSORA SPOTS IN THE IRIS 81 

Our answer to this is: "The diagnosis from the iris of 
the eye and the progress of chronic cases under nat- 
ural methods of living and treatment conclusively prove 
these facts." Instances like the following come under 
our observation almost daily. 

Clinical Proofs 

A case of itch has been promptly cured with sulphur 
ointment and within a year there appears in the iris of this 
person, close to the pupil (area of the stomach), a sharply 
denned dark brown spot, and from that time on, the person 
is greatly troubled with chronic gastritis and later on with 
ulcers of the stomach. 

A mother is horrified to find on the head of her little 
girl some lice. Within a few days the hair is full of nits 
and the vermin have increased to an alarming extent. 
The mother applies coal oil, or mercurial ointments, and 
the "nasty things" disappear from the surface — but not 
from the body. The psoric taints which Nature was try- 
ing to eliminate, now reinforced by drug poisons and 
by the deadly miasms contained in the bodies of the para- 
sites themselves, recede into the interior and in place of 
being distributed throughout the entire body they now 
concentrate in some vital part or organ, and chronic 
headaches, epilepsy, chorea, asthma, nervousness, sexual 
perversion, etc., are often the result. 

Several years ago a lady belonging to a wealthy and 
refined family came to us for a diagnosis of her case. The 
left iris displayed in the region of the cerebellum a light 
brown spot, and I remarked, "You have suffered for many 
years with chronic headaches, nervousness, twitchings in 
the limbs and the muscles, and with dizziness. ' ' All of this 
she confirmed and wanted to know the cause of her life- 
long suffering. 



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"As a school girl," I continued, "you were troubled 
with head vermin and your mother treated them in the 
usual way." 

"Yes," she answered, "I remember distinctly, I was 
affected that way several times, but what has that to do 
with my ailments?" 

I explained to her that not external filth alone but in- 
ternal uncleanliness as well, favors the development of 
these parasites; that like bacteria they subsist on consti- 
tutional poisons and act as Nature's scavengers which 
purify the system of scrofulous and psoric miasms. I also 
informed her that in many instances natural treatment had 
reproduced the old suppressions and warned her to avoid 
suppressive treatment, if such a healing crisis should de- 
velop in her case. 

One day, after three months of Natural Therapeutic 
treatment, she complained about intolerable itching of 
the scalp. A look into her eyes revealed that the brown 
psora spot was surrounded and interlaced by fine white 
lines, the signs of an approaching acute reaction. "You 
will have visitors very soon," I remarked. 

"What visitors do you mean, doctor?" 

' ' The same kind that your mother killed some 25 years 
ago." 

Within a week after this conversation she entered my 
office and laughingly exclaimed, "Oh Doctor, not one vis- 
itor, but a million! I am just alive with them." "All 
right," I answered. "Be thankful they have come. This 
means the cure of your chronic ailments. Do not use any- 
thing now but a comb and cold water." 

"How lucky, Doctor, that you told me about this in ad- 
vance. Without your warning I would surely have rushed 
to a drug store and have done the same thing over again." 

Her old friends remained with her about two weeks and 
then disappeared as they had come. From that time on 



ITCH OR PSORA SPOTS IN THE IRIS 83 

she was free from the " terrible periodical headaches'' and 
other nervous ailments which had troubled her since child- 
hood. Possibly this psoric crisis prevented the develop- 
ment of insanity in later years. 

"Catching" in this case was absolutely out of the ques- 
tion, for she lived in the most refined surroundings and 
for three months cold water sprays and douches had been 
applied almost daily to head and body. 

"We are often asked the question: "Where do they come 
from — you do not believe that they come from the body 
itself?" We do not know, but we do know by frequent 
experience that when the body begins to eliminate scrofu- 
lous poisons we need not worry whence germs and microbes 
are to come. As carrion attracts vultures so the chronic 
miasms attract bacteria and parasites. 

This was written ten years ago for the "Nature Cure 
Magazine," but I allow it to stand in order to show how 
I anticipated the solution of the problem furnished by 
the microzyma, as outlined in Volume I. 

Occurrences like the one related answer the oft repeated 
question, "Why stir up these disease miasms — why not 
leave them where they are, if their elimination causes so 
much trouble?" 

If allowed to remain their presence means much greater 
trouble in the future. Better a brief healing crisis than 
paresis, cancer or tuberculosis. 

Cancer Grows in Psoric Soil 

The psora spots in the eye solve to a large extent the 
mystery surrounding the nature and origin of malignant 
tumors and of tuberculosis. If we find a vital part or 
organ affected by suppressed itch we know that such a 
person is in great danger of developing cancer, sarcoma, 
tuberculosis or other malignant chronic diseases in the 
encumbered parts. 



84 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

With two exceptions so far in our practice, all cases of 
cancer which we have cured have developed itchy, burning 
eruptions as healing crises. The two exceptions to the 
rule eliminated the psoric taints by means of furun- 
culosis. 

The almost certain appearance of itch eruptions as heal- 
ing crises during the cure of cancer is of great significance. 
It throws new light upon the true causes of this dreaded 
disease and positively confirms Hahnemann's theory of 
psora. Knowing these facts, is it wise to avoid an insig- 
nificant healing crisis and to run chances of developing 
cancer in later life, or is it better to give the organism 
a thorough house cleaning in order to eliminate the mor- 
bid miasms and thus to preclude the possibility of malig- 
nant tumors and of other chronic destructive diseases ? 

Medical statistics prove that during the last fifty years, 
among the common causes of death, cancer shows an in- 
crease of over 400 percent. This confirms our opinion that 
the more refined the old school of medicine becomes in the 
suppression of acute diseases and the more it contaminates 
the blood of our people with smallpox, serums, antitoxin 
and other disease products, the greater will be the increase 
in chronic destructive diseases. 

Following is the history of another typical psora case 
and of its development under natural treatment: 

Mr. B., of Chicago, had been a chronic invalid ever since 
childhood, " doctoring " continually for all sorts of ail- 
ments and growing worse instead of better. Four years 
ago he had become so weak that he was obliged to give up 
his profession and the doctors declared his to be a hopeless 
case. 

An examination of his eyes by a practitioner of Natural 
Therapeutics showed a large itch spot in the region of the 
small intestine. The doctor, after a superficial glance 
into his eyes, surprised him with the remark: " Early in 



ITCH OR PSORA SPOTS IN THE IRIS 85 

life you had the itch and it was suppressed. The poison 
then concentrated in the small intestine, causing chronic 
intestinal indigestion, irritation and occasional diarrheas. 
You are now in great danger of developing cancer in the 
affected parts." 

Mr. B. at once admitted the correctness of the diagnosis. 
He stated that while the doctors had treated him for 
" stomach troubles", he had always felt and insisted that 
most of the difficulty was in the bowels. On closer inspec- 
tion it was found that there were two separate and distinct 
itch spots, one overlying the other, indicating that the itch 
must have been suppressed twice. Mr. B. corroborated 
this also, saying he remembered distinctly having been 
twice " cured' ' of itch eruption with sulphur and mer- 
curial ointments. 

He was then informed that he could be cured easily and 
thoroughly by strict adherence to pure food diet and by 
systematic natural treatment, and that if the diagnosis 
was correct, itch eruptions would again manifest on the 
surface as healing crises. This, however, would not occur 
until his system had been sufficiently purified and strength- 
ened by the natural regimen. 

Mr. B., much impressed by this accurate diagnosis and 
prognosis of his case, entered with enthusiasm on the 
new plan of living and of treatment. His improvement 
from the beginning was remarkable. After the lapse 
of two months, having passed through the first healing 
crises he returned to work and for many years has not 
missed a day's labor. 

A year afterward Mr. B. reported remarkable improve- 
ment in every respect. Both patient and doctor, however, 
were somewhat puzzled because so far there had been no 
manifestation of itchy skin eruptions and because the 
psora spots in the iris had not changed or diminished to 
any considerable extent. 



8Q IKIDIAGNOSIS 

So far no homeopathic remedies had been administered 
and I prescribed psorinum, Hahnemann's great anti- 
psoric remedy. The patient received one dose of psorinum 
C. M. Nine days after this he broke out on arms and 
body with typical itch eruptions. At the same time he 
developed a violent intestinal crisis manifesting as severe 
colic and diarrhea. One day he reported in alarm that his 
bowels were ic passing away" from him. On inspection 
it was found that these "bowels" were the decayed casings 
of his diseased intestines. 

This simultaneous external and internal crisis conclu- 
sively proved the relationship between suppressed itch, 
itch spot in the iris, chronic enteritis, itch eruption and 
internal crisis. The acute reactions lasted about fourteen 
days. The itchy eruptions then disappeared and the 
bowels resumed their normal activity. The treatment dur- 
ing this crisis consisted of fasting and the usual cold 
water applications, no medicines of any kind being given. 
After this thorough housecleaning the patient felt greatly 
improved in body and mind, and an examination of the 
iris revealed the fact that the uppermost layer of the itch 
spot had disappeared, but the lower and darker layer was 
still in evidence. 

Six months afterward the patient, who had in the mean- 
time continued in the right way of living and of treat- 
ment, received another dose of psorinum, partly in order 
to stir up the remaining psora and partly to prove whether 
or not the first results had been merely accidental. Six 
days after he received the remedy an acne-form eruption 
appeared on his body. This lasted about three weeks and 
was accompanied by a severe catarrhal condition of the 
nasal and respiratory passages. This crisis also left him 
much improved in general health. 

At the present date the remnant of the itch spot in the 
iris is very small and has paled into a yellowish color. 



ITCH OR PSORA SPOTS IN THE IRIS 37 

Homeopathy a Branch of Natural Therapeutics 

This remarkable case is instructive in many respects. 
It proves the correctness of the diagnosis from the iris of 
the eye, the efficacy of natural diet and treatment, the 
truths of Hahnemann's theory of psora and of his law of 
"similia similibus curantur". 

This is only one of many cases which might be cited as 
positive proof of the laws and principles laid down and 
demonstrated in these pages. 

After reading this history of a psoric case our friend 
Homeopath may be tempted to object — "Why bother 
with other forms of natural treatment? After all, the 
homeopathic remedy had to do the work." 

No, brother Homeopath, psorinum alone did not do 
the work. It merely gave the final push and pull to the 
psora encumbered cells, which aroused them into acute 
activity. Natural treatment first had to purify and sensi- 
tize the organism before the homeopathic potency could 
act. We use the "similia" together with our other nat- 
ural methods when indicated, but we find that in many 
cases where the vitality is low and the organism heavily 
encumbered with disease and drug poisons, the remedy 
alone is too weak to produce a reaction. When, however, 
the system has been sufficiently purified of its grosser 
encumbrances and when the entire body has been stimu- 
lated into vigorous activity, then a high potency of the 
similar remedy often accomplishes wonders. 

Natural Therapeutics means a harmonious combination 
of all natural healing factors in accordance with the funda- 
mental laws of cure and with the individual characteristics 
of the case. To treat serious chronic ailments with one 
"pathy" or one method when many others are at our 
service is too much like pulling a heavy load with one 
horse when others are idle in the stable. 

The following narrative is another remarkable verinca- 



88 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

tion of Hahnemann's theory of psora and of the signs of 
psora in the iris. About seven years ago four of our 
students, three men and one woman, left our institution 
to assume positions as nurses in a physical culture sani- 
tarium. Each of them was there infected by a patient 
suffering with itchy eruptions (scabies). In spite of all 
natural treatment which that institution afforded, the 
eruptions persisted for several months. Miss M., one of 
the nurses, wrote me that she was suffering terribly from 
the eruptions with no sign of healing and that the others 
and herself had been given the alternative of submitting 
to mercurial treatment or leaving the institution. 

Two of the men submitted to the mercurial treatment 
and suppression. The third, Mr. C, went into the country 
and allowed the infection to run its course, aided by nat- 
ural living, nude air baths and cold water treatment. 
When Miss M. came back to us her appearance was such 
that she was obliged to seclude herself from public view. 
Inside of two months she had fully recovered and again 
took up her work as a nurse in our institution. 

The significant results of this remarkable crisis were 
as follows : When she first came to us, three years before 
this occurrence, she was suffering from tuberculosis and 
in addition she had almost lost her eyesight. The iris 
showed a very heavy scurf rim, revealing a psoric or 
scrofulous constitution. Under natural living and treat- 
ment she recovered sufficiently to take up our institu- 
tional training, but when she left us the scurf rim was 
still visible and quite heavy. After the itch crisis had run 
its course the scurf rim entirely disappeared and since 
that time she has enjoyed better health than ever before. 

When Mr. C. first came to us he had several itch spots 
in each eye. He suffered from many defects of a scrofu- 
lous constitution. This fact induced him to take up the 
study of Natural Therapeutics. He also had improved 



ITCH OR PSORA SPOTS IN THE IRIS 89 

greatly before he left our institution but the itch spots 
were still visible in his eyes. 

When I saw him soon after his return to Chicago from 
life on the farm, the itch spots had entirely disappeared 
from his iris. He has enjoyed perfect health ever since 
this remarkable healing crisis. 

Mr. E., who had subjected himself to mercurial treat- 
ment, came to me about six months after this drug sup- 
pression of the scabies. An earlier examination of the iris 
had shown good density, a light scurf rim and no itch 
spots. On the occasion of his last visit almost one-half 
of the iris was covered by a heavy black scurf rim. I do 
not know what has become of him since, but I am very 
certain that his condition was not improved by the sup- 
pressive mercurial treatment. 

I could relate hundreds of similar equally interesting 
cases of psoric encumbrance and elimination, but space 
does not permit. / 

Isopathy 

Isopathy, the forerunner of homeopathy by a few hun- 
dred years, was taught and practiced by Paracelsus, the 
mystic philosopher and physician, and his disciples. 
Isopathy administers the products, that is, the morbid ex- 
cretions, of a disease in order to cure the same disease. 
Instead of the "similar" it is the "same" as the disease, 
which is the meaning of isopathy. During an epidemic of 
cholera in the sixteenth century particles of feces of the 
victims of the plague were given as medical remedies to 
cholera patients. 

Homeopathy uses the isopathic remedies, such as psori- 
num, tuberculinum, siphilinum in highly triturated and 
potentized preparations. Allopathy (like the medieval 
quacks) administers the products of disease in the forms of 
serums, vaccines and antitoxins in crude, poisonous doses. 



CHAPTER IX 

COMPARISON OP FERMENTATION TO INFLAMMA- 
TION 

There is a remarkable similarity between alcoholic fer- 
mentation and the processes of feverish and inflammatory 
diseases. Both are processes of oxidation or combustion, 
accompanied by increased chemical activity and temper- 
ature. Both run a natural, orderly course and when prop- 
erly managed bring about certain normal, beneficial re- 
sults. When not controlled or when suddenly arrested 
and suppressed, both may result in permanently abnormal 
and undesirable conditions. 

Both processes depend on three essential factors : 

Alcoholic Fermentation depends Feverish and Inflammatory Dis- 
on — eases depend on — 

(1) A watery solution eorre- (1) Living blood and tissues, 
sponding to 

(2) Sugar, corresponding to (2) Waste and morbid matter in 

the blood. 

(3) Yeast, corresponding to (3) Microzyma, bacteria and 

parasites in blood and tissues. 

The following may serve as an explanation of the pre- 
ceding diagram. Modern allopathic materia medica is 
founded largely on the assumption that bacteria and para- 
sites of their own accord create disease conditions. From 
this they draw the natural conclusion that to kill the 
germs is equivalent to curing the disease. Almost their 
entire therapeutic efforts are directed to discovering, kill- 

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FERMENTATION AND INFLAMMATION 91 

ing and eliminating by poisonous drugs, serums, antitox- 
ins and by the surgeon's knife, the bacteria and parasites 
of disease. 

The following demonstrations, however, will prove that 
the primary assumption of allopathy, as well as its result- 
ing conclusions, are fallacious and that a practice built 
on these false foundations must of necessity be pregnant 
with disastrous results. 



Comparison Between 

Fermentation Inflammation 

Pure Water Pure Blood and Tissues 

Yeast grows and multiplies Microzyma develop into bac- 

in a sugar solution only; thrown teria and parasites only in path- 
into pure water it lies dormant ogenic materials. They remain 
and inactive. quiescent in a body possessed of 

pure blood and tissues and of 
normal vitality. 

First or Hereditary Stage of Disease 

Fermentation Inflammation 

Water plus a sugar solution A body plus hereditary and 

(grape juice) corresponds to acquired morbid matter. 



Second or Acute Inflammatory Stage of Disease 

Fermentation Inflammation 

Yeast lives on sugar plus Microzyma, while feeding on 

some proteid. While feeding on morbid matter, develop into 

these, the yeast germ digests or bacteria or germs of putrefac- 

splits up the sugar into alcohol tion, and these in turn while 

and carbonic acid gas. feeding on pathogenic materials 

Disintegration of the sugar decompose them into simpler 
molecules is accompanied by the compounds suitable for neutral- 
liberation of heat and by ac- ization and elimination. The 



92 



IRIDIAGNOSIS 



celerated atomic motion. The 
temperature rises perceptibly, 
bubbles of carbonic acid gas and 
a scum consisting of dead and 
live yeast germs and of other 
debris rises to the surface. 
Processes of fermentation are 
in many respects identical with 
processes of digestion, combus- 
tion or oxidation. The entire 
fermenting fluid is in violent 
commotion. 

If fermentation is allowed to 
run its natural course, within 
certain limitations of tempera- 
ture, until all sugar in the fluid 
is consumed, the process ceases 
of its own accord, chemical ac- 
tivity and temperature subside, 
and the resulting product is a 
wine-like fluid of crystal clear- 
ness. 

Alcohol, while itself the prod- 
uct of fermentation, as it ac- 
cumulates in the fluid, checks 
fermentation. 



resulting ashes or debris (see 
yeast scum) are eliminated 
through the natural channels of 
depuration and in the forms of 
pus, catarrhal and other morbid 
discharges. These processes of 
combustion and elimination of 
disease matter are usually 
termed fevers, inflammations, 
boils, abscesses, etc. Like fer- 
mentation they are accompanied 
by rise in temperature, acceler- 
ated (motion) pulse, elimination 
of effete matter, etc. 

If the acute inflammatory 
processes in the body are al- 
lowed to run their natural 
course, within certain limitations 
of temperature until all morbid 
matter is consumed and elimi- 
nated, the result is a cleaner, 
healthier body. (Fever can be 
easily controlled within safe 
limits by cold water applica- 
tions, fasting, etc.) 

The products of bacterial ac- 
tivity tend to check bacterial 
growth and development. 



From this it will be perceived that the processes of fer- 
mentation as well as of acute diseases are to a certain 
extent self-limited by their own effete products. 

If the acute activities in the body run their natural 
course and terminate in normal conditions, then the whit- 
ish signs of inflammation in the iris gradually disappear 
and give way to the normal blue or brown. 

The second or acute inflammatory stage of encumbrance 
as recorded in the iris of the eye is illustrated in Fig. 14, 
Series I, and Figs. 10-11. 



FERMENTATION AND INFLAMMATION 



93 



Third or Chronic 
Fermentation 

Yeast fermentation in a sugar 
solution may be promptly pre- 
vented or arrested by the addi- 
tion of salicylic acid, formalde- 
hyde or some other powerful 
antiseptic or germicide. Anti- 
septics are protoplasmic poisons, 
that is, they paralyze and de- 
stroy the protoplasm of living 
cells and inhibit their activity. 
Fermentation, suppressed by an- 
tiseptics, results in a turbid 
fluid containing unfermented 
sugar, dead yeast germs and 
poisonous antiseptics. 

Prof. Bechamp proved that 
yeast fermentation thus arrest- 
ed by antiseptics results in de- 
composition of the yeast cells 
and the appearance of bacteria 
in their stead. These experi- 
ments were conducted under 
conditions which made the in- 
vasion of bacteria from without 
an impossibility. 



Stage of Disease 

Inflammation 
Acute inflammatory condi- 
tions in the body may be 
subdued or suppressed by proto- 
plasmic poisons, such as anti- 
septics, antipyretics, opiates, 
sedatives, alteratives, or any 
other class of poisons which 
paralyze or destroy cell pro- 
toplasm and inhibit vital func- 
tions. All of these poisons not 
only paralyze and destroy bac- 
teria and parasites of disease, 
but also paralyze and kill the 
healthy cells and tissues of the 
body. If the acute, feverish 
and inflammatory reactions of 
the second stage of encumbrance 
are suppressed by antiseptics 
and germicides, the combustion 
and elimination of morbid mat- 
ter is hindered and suppressed, 
and drug poisons, which are 
much more harmful than disease 
poisons, are super-added to the 
old encumbrances of morbid 
matter. 

These accumulations of effete 
and foreign matter become a 
source of continual irritation 
and obstruction, and form a 
luxuriant soil for the production 
or invasion of bacteria and par- 
asites. In other words, Nature's 
acute cleansing and healing ef- 
forts are changed into chronic 
catarrhal diseases. 

The chronic stage of encumbrance as recorded in the 
iris of the eye is illustrated in fig. 14, series III, p. 112. 



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IEIDIAGNOSIS 



Fourth or Chronic Destructive Stage of Disease 

(Loss of Substance) 



Fermentation 

If the turbid fluid, created by 
the suppression of alcoholic fer- 
mentation, be exposed to air and 
warmth, its microzyma will de- 
velop into spurious germs and 
ferments and various forms of 
wild fermentation. 

These spurious fermentations, 
in their turn, may be suppressed 
by more antiseptics and germi- 
cides, but as a result the fluid 
becomes totally unfit as a bev- 
erage and finally poisonous to 
human life. 



Inflammation 
The human organism, when it 
has reached the third stage of 
encumbrance, will arouse itself 
occasionally to feeble (chronic) 
efforts of elimination, but ever 
increasing accumulation of mor- 
bid matter, continual additions 
of drug poisons, surgical mutila- 
tions of vital parts and organs, 
all conspire to lower the vital- 
ity and to prevent the possi- 
bility of any decisive, acute 
reactions or healing crises. 

The natural resistance and 
powers of reaction of the organ- 
ism are in this manner slowly 
but surely undermined and 
weakened. Decay and destruc- 
tion gradually proceed into the 
advanced stages of tuberculosis, 
malignant tumors, paralysis 
agitans, locomotor ataxia, pare- 
sis, pernicious anemia, chronic 
rheumatism, etc. 

These destructive changes of the fourth stage of encum- 
brance, as recorded in the iris of the eye, are illustrated in 
fig. 14, series IV, page 112. 



The Making of a "Chronic" 

In order to illustrate the foregoing theoretical exposi- 
tions of the development of acute and chronic diseases by 
a living example from every day experience, I shall de- 
scribe a typical case of consumption, tracing it from its 
incipiency in an hereditary scrofulous constitution through 
its various progressive stages to the fully developed tuber- 



FERMENTATION AND INFLAMMATION 



95 



culosis, and thence to health under the regenerating 
influences of natural living and natural methods of cure. 

" John" was born with eyes of dark violet blue, indicat- 
ing that "the sins of the f athers, ' ' that is, unnatural modes 
of living and of healing for many generations past, had 
endowed him with the undesirable inheritance of a psoric 
or scrofulous constitution. 

Nature, ever seeking to establish the perfect normal 
type, almost at birth began to eliminate the morbid inheri- 




ng. 10. 



tance through the skin and the mucous membrane of the 
digestive and respiratory tracts. (Fig. 10.) 

But these well meant cleansing and healing efforts of 
Nature were misunderstood by John's parents and the 
family doctor. When the scalp took up the work of scrofu- 
lous elimination in the form of milk scurf and eczematous 
eruptions, it was smothered in oils, unsalted butter, cream, 
or mercurial ointments, in order to suppress as quickly as 
possible the "dreadful looking scabs". 

If mother, after this "successful cure", had looked 
closely into baby's eyes she would have noticed in the 
outer rim of the iris the appearance of a dark, broad ring 



96 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

— the " scurf rim" — and also a slight darkening of the iris 
color in general. (Fig. 11, page 96) 

Mother Nature, however, does not give up the fight so 
easily. Thwarted in one quarter she tries in another. 
Liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels next took up the work 
of purification. Johnny had attacks of gastritis, vomiting, 
colic and constipation alternating with diarrhea. The 
scrofulous poisons eliminating through the membranes of 
the intestinal tract bred worms of various descriptions. 




But doctor, grandma, auntie and the entire female 
neighborhood within a radius of several miles, contributed 
advice, teas, drugs and salves of all possible descriptions 
to "cure" the pains, colics, worms, constipation and diar- 
rhea as fast as Mother Nature developed them. If mother 
had examined Johnny's eyes as he passed through these 
periods of strenuous doctoring, she would have noticed 
around the pupil in the regions of stomach and bowels 
the development of a peculiar wreath full of black spokes 
and spots, denoting the localities in stomach and intes- 
tines where drugs and suppressed disease poisons had 
accomplished their work of destruction. (Fig. 11.) She 
would also have noticed various color marks indicating 



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97 



the locations in which drug poisons had gradually accumu- 
lated. Fine, whitish nerve rings indicated that Johnny's 
nervous system, irritated and over-stimulated by disease 
and drug poisons, was badly out of balance. 

As the encumbrances of Johnny's system grew more 
serious and more complicated, Nature 's efforts at elimina- 
tion became more drastic and severe. He was going to 
school now and mother was very indignant because "he 
was catching from the dirty children" every "infectious" 




Fig. 12. 

disease within hailing distance. Now he would be down 
with the measles, then with scarlet fever, another time he 
was infected with lice and itch and, to cap the climax, 
he was taken with smallpox. 

Mother and doctor failed to see that these "infectious 
diseases" were various forms of psoric elimination. These 
"dreadful" diseases were also promptly "cured" by poi- 
sonous drugs and serums. That is, they were checked 
and suppressed before they had run their full and natural 
courses, and were thus made permanent in the form of 
defective hearing, liver and kidney diseases, indigestion 
and malnutrition. (Figs. 11-12, pp. 96-97.) 

Though John, in his numerous tussels with allopathic 



98 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

and home made remedies, did not contract and carry off 
all the defects and blemishes mentioned above, he entered 
upon young manhood sufficiently handicapped to make 
life a burden. Suppression of psoric diseases left "itch 
spots" in his eyes in the regions of the liver, kidneys and 
intestines, indicating where the psoric poisons had con- 
centrated. (Figs. 12-13, pp. 97-100.) 

The eyes revealed in many places the color marks of 
quinin, phenacetin, strychnin, iodin, arsenic and mercury, 
showing that these poisons had accumulated in the parts 
and organs indicated in the iris and were now interfering 
with the normal functions of assimilation and elimination. 
(Figs. 12-13.) As a consequence, elimination through the 
natural channels was seriously impeded, but waste matter 
and poisons had to be disposed of somehow. The mucous 
membranes of throat, bronchi and lungs undertook this 
work of vicarious elimination for kidneys and bowels, and 
it is not to be wondered that John was "catching cold" 
with every passing draft. 

Doctor Pills, who had "cured" so many of his childhood 
ills, now furnished the cheerful information that the ca- 
tarrh and cough were becoming chronic. John continued 
to lose ground little by little. One day he walked into 
Dr. P.'s office and remarked: "Well, Doctor, my feet got 
wet the other day and I caught another bad cold. I am 
coughing and expectorating terribly — it keeps me awake. ' ' 

"All right, John," answered Dr. P., "here is some 
quinin sulph. that will down the fever; and here is some 
codein (opium) that will make you sleep and dry up that 
cough. Come back in a few days and let me know how 
you are getting on." 

After a few weeks John came again. "Well, Doctor, 
your medicine worked like a charm. The fever was gone 
in twenty-four hours and the coughing and spitting has 
almost stopped now. Only I feel so weak in my limbs 



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and my back aches and I have such a depressing headache 
and then my bowels won't move at all." (Depressing 
effects of quinin and opium.) 

"All right, John, well fix that up for you. Here is 
some phenacetin that will stop your aches, and here is a 
nice tonic (arsenic, strychnia and iron) that will give you 
a fine appetite. And then you eat a good big beefsteak 
twice a day, eggs and chicken, soups and beef tea. A little 
beer or good old brandy won't hurt you either." 

"All right, Doctor, but what about the bowels?" 

"Oh yes, I forgot about them — here are some pills. 
Take a few after each meal. They will keep you going 
like clockwork." 

One month later; "Good morning, Doctor." 

"Good morning, John, how are you?" 

"Well, Doctor, it might be better. That cough you 
stopped seems to be getting a little worse again, and I 
eat and eat and eat, but I don't seem to grow any stronger 
— it feels like a big stone in my stomach. My bowels 
worked a little better for a while, but now they won't 
move at all. Then sometimes I have a bad pain in my 
chest, and I am growing quite short winded." 

"All right, John, I see we have to give it to you a little 
stronger. Here are some calomel pills (mercury) — take 
a few every night and follow it up in the morning with a 
good dose of salts. That is bound to do the work. Your 
appetite will be better, you will eat more and that will 
give you more strength. I notice your heart and pulse 
are getting a little weak. I'll give you some digitalis, 
that will strengthen the heart. And here is some ipecac 
to loosen the mucus in your lungs and help to bring it up. ' ' 

Another month went by and poor John was not quite 
well yet. Once in a while he had a time of feeling well, 
and then the doctor told him the medicine was doing 
splendidly; again, John was worse, and the doctor said 



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IBIDIAGNOSIS 



he must give him something stronger. By and by John 
became impatient. He thought "all that medicine" should 
have benefited him in some way. He did not like to leave 
his doctor, since Dr. P. now "knew his 'system' so weir'. 
He imagined that if he went to another doctor now, the 
latter would have to ' ' study his system ' ' for a year or so 
before understanding his multitudinous ailments. 

Dr. P. himself grew somewhat tired of the case. It 
grated on his nerves to see poor John come again and 
again with the same old "tale of woe". He knew that 




the patient could not last much longer and advised him 
to consult a celebrated lung and throat specialist. John's 
vitality had been more and more lowered by the long 
continued effects of stimulants and virulent poisons. Poi- 
sonous tonics had worn out his stomach and cathartics 
his bowels. Quinin, iodin, arsenic, etc., were racking his 
flesh and bones with neuralgic pains. Degeneration of the 
lungs had progressed far enough to form a luxuriant soil 
for the tubercle bacilli. The celebrated lung specialist 
examined the sputum and found the T. B. 's in great num- 
bers. He then proceeded to kill the germs with coal tar 
products. (Fig. 13.) 



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But these poisons did not stop to pick out just the 
T.B. 's. On their way through the body they also destroyed 
red blood corpuscles and delicate tissues of vital organs. 

So, between the germs and the germ killers, the tonics 
and the over feeding, the mercury, salts and other good 
old orthodox pills and potions, John in spite of (?) all 
that money and science could do for him, went rapidly 
from bad to worse. 

The Resurrection 

Finally the great lung specialist, recognizing the futil- 
ity of his efforts, ordered John to pack his trunk as quickly 
as possible for El Paso or Phoenix, the paradise of "one 
lungers". Finding himself (thanks to long continued 
illness and expensive doctoring) short of the necessary 
funds required for an extended sojourn in the southern 
mecca of consumptives, John decided as a last and forlorn 
hope to obtain my opinion of his case. 

Evidently having been informed about our way of do- 
ing things, he asked me to examine his eyes and give him 
a correct inventory and an estimate of his remaining 
anatomy. While I found some parts missing and others 
badly damaged, I did not consider his case entirely hope- 



From the records in the iris I proceeded to unravel his 
history as outlined in the preceding sketch. When the 
diagnosis was finished he asked me whether I "got it" 
psychometrically or mediumistically. I assured him that 
I did not have to draw on any supernatural powers ; that, 
on the contrary, my "reading" from the iris was based 
on very simple and strictly scientific facts and principles. 
By means of a magnifying mirror and a chart of the iris 
he was himself able to locate and to recognize the princi- 
pal landmarks. He had to admit that the record in his 
eyes exactly tallied with his past history and present 



102 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

symptoms, and he felt convinced there was "something 
in it". 

I assured him that though his case was somewhat com- 
plicated and advanced, I by no means considered him 
incurable since he possessed youth, some hundred and 
thirty pounds of flesh and the odds and ends of an orig- 
inally good constitution. Only an actual trial could 
determine the possibility of cure. If there was left in 
his organism sufficient vitality and if his kidneys, intes- 
tines and lungs were not damaged beyond repair, his 
system would soon respond to the purifying and invigor- 
ating influences of natural treatment. 

Furthermore, it was explained to him that when properly 
assisted Nature always works her cures in a perfectly 
orderly manner, in harmony with certain well defined 
laws of crisis and periodicity. In conformity with these 
laws there would be about six weeks of general improve- 
ment especially noticeable in the digestive organs. First 
of all the bowels, which, "in spite" of laxatives and 
cathartics, had been sluggish and constipated for a life- 
time, would begin to act normally and freely. Then, as 
his system became purified and invigorated, Nature would 
commence in earnest her work of elimination and repair. 
The latent chronic conditions would then become acute. 
Febrile diseases and skin eruptions long ago suppressed, 
as shown in the iris, would reappear and this time run 
their course in regular, natural order. 

I also informed him that during these crisis periods he 
would experience various symptoms of acute poisoning 
such as are commonly produced by quinin, coal tar prod- 
ucts, mercury, iodin, etc., because these drug poisons 
accumulated in the course of many years would be stirred 
up in their lairs and would be eliminated in due season 
each under its own peculiar symptom. 

When I had proceeded thus far in my prognosis John 



FERMENTATION AND INFLAMMATION 103 

arose somewhat abruptly, grabbed his hat and started for 
the door, saying he would come back some other time — 
that he must now hasten to keep another important ap- 
pointment. 

Reading his thoughts, I assured him there was no cause 
for alarm; that healing crises come in mild form only, 
because they cannot materialize until the system is prop- 
erly prepared, and in a healing crisis Nature always has 
the best of the fight. I also called his attention to the 
fact that he was rapidly wasting away in destructive 
disease crises and unless a speedy change was wrought 
in his condition he would soon be beyond the possibility 
of healing crises. 

Reassured and encouraged by my explanation he de- 
cided to give Natural Therapeutics a fair trial. 

I then proceeded to inquire into his daily habits and to 
offer suggestions for their correction. He was instructed 
that if he wished to eliminate old accumulations , of dis- 
ease and drug poisons he must stop taking in new ones in 
the form of meat, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, coffee or tea. 
The patient was put on a vegetarian, but withal posi- 
tive, diet ; everything in impure food and harmful drinks 
was promptly eliminated from his dietary. This greatly 
relieved his organs of elimination and gave them a chance 
to remove old encumbrances of morbid matter and poisons. 

Cold water treatments, massage, spinal manipulation, 
simple health gymnastics, normal suggestion and the indi- 
cated homeopathic remedies, all contributed to increase 
in a natural and harmless manner the activity of skin, 
bowels, kidneys, mucous membranes and in fact of every 
cell in the body, and this increase of activity was brought 
about without introducing into his system any poisons 
whatsoever. 

No condition can be called incurable until a combina- 
tion of all these natural healing factors has been tried 



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104 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

and has failed. If there be vitality enough to react prop- 
erly under such treatment and if the destruction of vital 
parts be not too great the system will soon respond, John's 
case, fortunately, was of this description. Under our 
treatment the worst symptoms of the patient rapidly 
abated, his appetite improved wonderfully, the bowels 
moved more freely than for many years past ; he grew in 
strength physically and mentally. 

He continued thus to improve for about two months, all 
the while watching with us for the predicted manifesta- 
tions. Then he came to us and said: " Doctor, I do not 
believe your crises are going to materialize in my case — I 
suppose I was not sick enough to have any. Don't you 
think I might go home now?" 

I smilingly answered: "Just wait a bit and see — you 
will whistle a different tune by and by." 

A few days later our erstwhile too confident patient 
came to me in a different frame of mind — the picture of 
fright and despair. * ' Oh my, Doctor ! I must have caught 
a terrible cold, but I cannot imagine where, unless it was 
that last cold water treatment. I told the attendant he 
was putting it on too long and too cold, but he only laughed 
at me, — and now I Ve got it. And those nuts I ate did not 
agree with me, either — I am always a little afraid of them. 
Oh, my stomach and bowels are in a terrible condition! 
I'm just as constipated and nauseated as I was six weeks 
ago. I have chills and fever and the cough and catarrh are 
worse than ever. I feel it is all up with me now. It's too 
bad, after having been so hopeful and confident of recov- 
ery. I suppose I was too far gone and my friend Jack 
was right. He told me this kind of cure was all right for 
rheumatism, but starvation diet and cold water would 
surely kill me." 

Without wasting any sympathy on him I congratulated 
him on his good fortune, jokingly saying — "Well, well, 



FEEMENTATION AND INFLAMMATION 105 

such a beautiful crisis ! And just on time, too. Oh, these 
crises ! They are so pleasant to talk and read about and 
they are really interesting when it's on the other fellow, 
but when they strike us we wish the doctor and his Nat- 
ural Therapeutics in a warmer clime and feel like making 
a short cut for the drug store 'to have something done 
quickly'. Isn't that the way you feel, old man? Oh, yes, 
you thought you were not going to have any crisis ; well, 
without any doubt it has you now. No, you will not die ; 
don't worry — you are doing gloriously. If you don't feel 
like eating, fast until you are hungry. If you feel hot 
and feverish, take a cold sponge or a foot bath ; or if you 
have the chills and cannot get warm, take a wet pack and 
a hot drink. This together with our regular treatment 
will be fully sufficient for any emergency, and Nature 
will do the rest." 

My good humor and confidence, inspired by absolute 
knowledge of the law, were more effective than the pills 
and blisters of Dr. P. John had it out with his fever, 
coughed, expectorated, perspired and had a pretty tough 
time of it generally. Notwithstanding the seeming sever- 
ity of the symptoms he was able to attend to his usual 
duties with remarkable ease and endurance. Nature had 
the best of it — she never undertakes a healing crisis unless 
the organism is in condition to conduct it to a successful 
termination. 

After a few weeks of crises our patient began to im- 
prove, growing stronger day by day. He realized he had 
actually "gotten rid of something" — he felt remarkably 
light and energetic, in fact better than for many years. 
I warned him, however, not to be over elated and not to 
mistake the first period of real improvement for a per- 
manent cure. For, while the eyes showed greatly im- 
proved conditions in lungs, bronchi and digestive organs, 
they still revealed plenty of work ahead for Nature's 



106 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

healing forces. And subsequent events again confirmed 
the records in the iris. 

After periods of " building up" and of splendid im- 
provement, there would suddenly develop an inflammation 
of the kidneys, a " bilious spell", symptoms of acute 
quinin, iodin or mercurial poisoning. But the climax 
was capped by an acute attack of pneumonia. 

His friends expected this to be the beginning of the end, 
but the inflammation in the lungs ran its course in less 
than two weeks and the patient began to improve, at first 
slowly and then more rapidly. 

Today, three years after the great crisis, he is in good 
health and enjoying life in Europe. 

The Moral of It 

What lessons are to be learned from this remarkable 
and authentic case? 

The diagnostic signs in the eyes of this patient were 
verified — (1) by his previous history; (2) by his "symp- 
toms" which exactly correspond with the signs in the 
iris ; (3) by his subsequent healing crises ; (4) by the grad- 
ual disappearance of the signs and color marks in the 
iris after the occurrence of healing and cleansing crises. 

The diagnosis from the iris as illustrated and confirmed 
by this and other cases, absolutely and conclusively proves 
the cumulative effect of drug poisons in the body. It 
demonstrates that everything which is foreign, uncon- 
genial or injurious to life reveals its presence in the body 
by certain well defined color marks in the iris of the eye. 
It furthermore proves conclusively that certain elements 
which in the organic form are normally present in the 
human organism, will become abnormal and injurious to 
health when taken in large doses in the inorganic mineral 
form. 

For instance, iron, sulphur, sodium, lime, phosphorus, 



FERMENTATION AND INFLAMMATION 107 

magnesium and manganese, in the live, organic form in 
fruits and vegetables may be taken continuously in large 
amounts without "showing" in the iris. The same ele- 
ments, however, when taken in much smaller quantities in 
the inorganic form, soon accumulate in those parts of the 
body for which they exhibit a special affinity. These ac- 
cumulations of foreign matter reveal their presence and 
location by well denned color marks in the corresponding 
areas in the iris of the eye. 

Why is inorganic matter so injurious to living organ- 
isms? Nature never intended coarse inorganic minerals 
to serve as foods and medicines for human bodies. Evolu- 
tion consists in ever accelerated vibratory activity, accom- 
panied by an increasing refinement of matter and by 
greater complexity of structure. In accordance with this 
law of evolutionary development, each lower kingdom 
refines and prepares food materials for the next higher 
one. 

The vegetable life principle draws, refines and organizes 
minerals of the soil into the living protoplasm of the vege- 
table cell and thus prepares them for animal and human 
food. The animal life principle refines and elaborates 
vegetable matter into the highly refined and complicated 
molecular structures of the animal cell. The vegetable 
lives on the mineral, and the animal on the vegetable. 
To introduce the coarse, inorganic forms of the mineral 
kingdom into the animal organism is contrary to Nature 's 
plan. 

This explains why Nature did not prepare animal and 
human organs of assimilation and elimination to cope with 
the coarse, heavy aggregations of the mineral kingdom; 
why animal and human organisms cannot mould these 
uncongenial elements into normal living tissues ; and why 
the organs of depuration cannot eliminate them com- 
pletely. 



108 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

As a consequence, such foreign materials accumulate 
in parts of the organism for which they possess a special 
affinity, and ever afterwards, unless eliminated by power- 
ful, natural methods of treatment, act as irritants and 
poisons, thus causing a large percentage of chronic dis- 
eases. 

What does diagnosis from the iris teach with regard 
to the dogmas of Christian Science ? If there is no disease, 
why does God, or Nature, with marvelous exactitude, por- 
tray in the iris of the eye every passing or permanent con- 
dition which we are in the habit of calling disease ? ' ' Sci- 
entists" claim that diseases are only "errors of mortal 
mind". Mortal mind, however, until a few years ago 
never suspected the existence of these records in the eyes. 
How then could it be instrumental in producing them? 
If the teachings of Christian Science be true, we must nec- 
essarily conclude that the great Universal Intelligence 
which creates these wonderful records in the eyes is 
afflicted with a badly "erring mortal mind". 

About a year ago I attended a gentleman, who, in addi- 
tion to natural treatment, desired also the assistance of a 
Christian healer. One day at the bedside of our mutual 
patient I met the healer, a grand old man with the vener- 
able head and features of a patriarch. In the course of 
our conversation he related to me the circumstances of 
his conversion and development as a faith healer. Twenty 
years before, while living in a small Texas town, he was 
stricken with typhoid fever. The local country doctors 
fed him as usual on calomel (mercury), quinin and salts. 
But, in spite (?) of their faithful services he did not im- 
prove and they finally pronounced his inevitable doom. 
In his last extremity he had recourse to the Bible. The 
promises and assurances of spiritual healing therein 
aroused new hope and confidence, he "threw physic to 
the dogs" and put his sole and entire reliance in the heal- 



FERMENTATION AND INFLAMMATION 109 

ing power of the Spirit. A powerful therapeutic faith, 
thus aroused, greatly invigorated and harmonized his 
mental vibrations and these in turn, by continuity, acted 
as a powerful tonic on the waning forces of the physical 
organism. Unhindered by poisonous drugs and stimulated 
by therapeutic faith, Nature's healing forces now gained 
the ascendancy and the disease crisis was transformed 
into a healing crisis. But, Brother C, as he assured me, 
attributed his marvelous recovery to a special interven- 
tion of the Lord. 

Through twenty years he had undoubtedly done a great 
deal of good in fighting the darkness and despair of crass 
materialism by a living faith in a higher spiritual healing 
power. But through all these years he had failed to un- 
derstand the modus operandi of this healing power of 
Nature and could not appreciate its limitations. Looking 
into his big blue eyes I saw the yellow color marks of 
chronic quinin poisoning and as a concomitant the signs of 
chronic catarrh in the regions of head, bronchi and lungs. 
After he finished his story I asked him the question: "Is 
it not a fact that you suffer from time to time with ring- 
ing in the ears, frontal headaches and nasal and bronchial 
catarrh?" To which he answered: "Yes, brother, that 
is true ; though prayer has helped me these twenty years 
in every other ailment, the Lord has never cured me of 
this chronic catarrh." 

Confessions like these I hear continually from the lips 
of healers and Scientists. If Brother C. had understood 
the laws of cure as explained in these writings, he would 
have seen nothing remarkable in his spontaneous recovery 
from typhoid or from any other acute ailment, because 
they are in themselves healing and cleansing efforts of 
Nature. 

He would also have understood that even the Lord could 
not cure him of his chronic catarrh so long as quinin, the 



HO IRIDIAGNOSIS 

primary cause and excitant of it, was not removed from 
his system ; he would have known that it takes more than 
the buoyant and stimulating effect of therapeutic faith 
to eliminate such poisons from the system. With all due 
respect for the holiness and effectiveness of prayer, it is 
still true that a four months' thorough course of water 
cure, manipulative, dietetic and homeopathic treatment 
would have accomplished a great deal more in diminish- 
ing the signs in the iris and the catarrh in the body than 
his twenty years of faithful prayer. After all, God helps 
those who help themselves, and the grandest and most 
efficient of all prayers is intelligent, well directed work. 



CHAPTER X 

SIGNS OP INORGANIC MINERALS IN THE IRIS OF 
THE EYE 

We are frequently asked, ' ' Why do you presume to say 
what is natural to the system — how do you judge what is 
poisonous V 

Nature answers these much disputed questions, as she 
does so many others, in the iris of the eye. Substances 
congenial to the body, those which in quality and quantity 
normally belong to it, do not show in the iris. But all 
substances foreign or poisonous to the organism may re- 
veal their presence and location by certain well defined 
signs and discolorations in the corresponding areas or 
fields of the iris. 

For hundreds of years physicians and scientists have 
disputed as to the advisability of introducing into the 
human body in foods or medicines, mineral and earthy 
elements in the inorganic mineral form. Homeopaths, 
eclectics and physio-medical physicians seceded from the 
allopathic school of medicine because they condemned the 
use of inorganic minerals in physiological doses as 
medicines. 

Nature Cure advocates, from the very beginning of the 
movement, strongly emphasized the fact that even those 
minerals and earthy elements which naturally belong to 
the human body must be taken as food or medicine only 
in the live, organic form in vegetable or animal protoplasm. 

They claimed that iron, lime, sodium, potassium, mag- 
nesium, sulphur and phosphorus, though they are of the 

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greatest importance in the vital economy of the body, 
must not be taken in the inorganic, mineral form, lest 
they accumulate and concentrate in certain parts or organs 
of the body for which they exhibit a special affinity and 
there become harmful and dangerous to health and life. 
The student should carefully study Vol. I., Chap. XXIV., 
in which this subject is fully treated. 

Previous to the discovery of Nature's records in the 
iris, the question as to whether inorganic minerals and 
earthy elements are beneficial or harmful to the human 
organism, was largely a matter of opinion and contro- 
versy. No positive proof in support of either position was 
available. 

Iridology now proves beyond the shadow of a doubt 
that these substances, when taken in the inorganic form, 
accumulate in certain parts or organs for which they 
have a special affinity, as shown in color plate, page 114. 

Color Plate 
(Page 114) 

Before beginning the description of the various color 
signs in the iris I must call your attention to the fact 
that the iris of perfectly normal human beings exhibits 
only one of two normal colors — a light azure blue for all 
pure blooded descendants of the Keltic and Indo-Cau- 
casian races, and a pure light brown for the first three 
Aryan subraces and for the descendants of the fourth or 
Atlantean root race. (The subject of racial character- 
istics has been briefly treated in Chapter IV.) 

From this it follows that any other color pigments or 
discolorations of the iris indicate either abnormalities, 
disease processes or the presence of foreign matter or 
poisons in the system. The Iridologist, therefore, care- 
fully studies every color pigment in the iris and endeavors 



114 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

to discover its significance. While in this way a great 
deal of positive knowledge has been acquired concerning 
disease processes and the presence and exact location of 
foreign and toxic materials in the system, much remains to 
be explained in this intensely interesting field of scientific 
research. 

The effects upon the system of the various poisons ex- 
hibited in the iris are described elsewhere in this volume 
under the respective drug headings. The irides on this 
color plate represent righ't eyes only. It is interesting to 
note that the pigments in the iris closely resemble the 
natural color of the corresponding drugs. 

Description 

Fig. a. — Blue eye. This is a typical drug eye. The 
dark blue underground is covered with a whitish film 
produced by coal tar poisons, such as salycilic acid and 
creosote^ and other poisons. The crescent in the upper 
margin of the iris is the arcus senilis or gerontoxon. In 
medical works it is described as an opacity of the upper 
margin of the iris. It is usually observed in people of 
advanced age, therefore the name — arch of the aged. It 
is supposed to be a sign of lowered vitality and resistance 
of the organism as a whole and the brain tissues in par- 
ticular. We frequently notice similar encroachments of 
the cornea on other sections of the iris. They are indica- 
tive of a weak lymphatic condition of the tissues and of 
low vitality. The arcus senilis must not be mistaken for 
certain drug signs which are described in this volume. 

The inner margin of the arcus shows a yellowish dis- 
coloration caused by some drug poison, probably quinin. 
In the upper half of the iris, in the brain region, is dis- 
played a broad white crescent, the sign of potassium bro- 
mate and of other bromin combinations. The color of the 
crescent varies somewhat according to the various chem- 



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icals associated with bromin in medical prescriptions. 
Sometimes the crescent covers the upper border of the 
iris and is extended more or less around the outer margin. 
It then shows similarly to the sodium ring in the same 
iris picture. 

The broad whitish deposit all around the outer margin 
of the iris was caused by the absorption of large quanti- 
ties of sodium bicarbonate (common baking soda). A 
similar deposit is formed by various substances containing 
large amounts of sodium, such as sodium salycilate, sodium 
sulphate, sodium bromate, etc. The salts of lime, mag- 
nesium and potassium show in similar manner. The loca- 
tion of the "salt ring" indicates that these mineral ele- 
ments tend to concentrate and locate in the outer mus- 
cular structures of the body and in the skin, also in the 
brain tissue where they may have a serious effect upon 
memory and mental processes. 

The white wheel in the stomach region, directly around 
the pupil, indicates the presence of strychnin in this 
organ. The sign is easily recognized by its perfect cir- 
cular outline resembling a wheel and the uniform struc- 
ture of its tiny spokes. The strychnin wheel appears im- 
perfectly in Fig. f, where it is overshadowed by the sign 
of atrophy of the digestive organs. 

The area of the intestinal tract surrounding the strych- 
nin sign shows the rust brown discoloration of iron. In 
many instances this characteristic iron rust pigment covers 
the entire gastro-intestinal area. Inorganic iron has an 
astringent, benumbing effect upon the tissues. Its sign 
therefore indicates a sluggish, atrophic condition of the 
digestive organs. We frequently observe the sign in the 
eyes of people who have long used drinking water heavily 
charged with iron. 

The sharply defined brown spots in the lower half of 
the iris are the itch or psora spots. They are the signs 



116 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

of suppressed scabies or of other itchy skin eruptions or 
eczemata as described in Chapter VIII. As time elapses 
after the suppression of psoric eruptions the itch spots 
grow darker in color until they become blackish brown. 

Fig. b. — Blue eye. The bright red spots in this iris are 
the signs of iodin. "We find them in a large percentage of 
human eyes (in civilized countries). They are of a 
brighter shade of red or brown than the psora spots, and 
their outlines are more diffuse. 

The whitish "snowfiakes", mostly visible in the lower 
half of this iris, are the signs of arsenical poisoning. 
Their presence in the spleen, as in this case, often signifies 
enlargement of the spleen and the serious symptoms that 
go with it. The white flakes of arsenic are easily distin- 
guished from the lymphatic rosary in the outer margin of 
the iris, visible in the form of white flakes on the inner 
border of a portion of the scurf rim. The lymphatic or 
typhoid rosary is more plainly visible in Figures c and e. 

The scurf rim is the dark deposit on the outer margin 
of the iris, it being covered in the upper part by the white 
deposit. Where it extends all around the iris, as in this 
case, it dates back to infancy and indicates congenital 
scrofula or psora. If it appears only in parts of the iris, 
in crescent form, it has been acquired later in life. 

The white deposit in the upper half of the iris, particu- 
larly the brain region, indicates the destructive effect of 
mercury and coal tar poisons upon the brain tissues, ag- 
gravated by bromids and the salts of other metals. We 
observe such bad demarcation and frazzled appearance of 
the upper rim of the iris frequently in the eyes of people 
threatened with or affected by apoplexy, insanity or 
paresis. 

The purple discoloration in the area of the digestive 
organs indicates lead poisoning. We frequently find this 
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lead. The white rays extending from the upper margin of 
the pupil to the brain region are the sign of opium, cocain 
or morphin poisoning. In the eyes of drug fiends the 
white rays extend from all around the iris, partly from 
the pupil, and partly from the sympathetic wreath. 

The heavy, white sympathetic wreath surrounding the 
digestive area shows the effect of opiates and of powerful 
coal tar poisons, such as phenacetin and antipyrin, upon 
the sympathetic nervous system. In similar manner the 
sympathetic wreath may show the peculiar color pigments 
of other poisons, such as the yellow color of quinin, or 
the reddish color of iodin. 

Fig. c. — Blue eye. This iris shows plainly the yellow- 
ish discoloration of quinin in the upper part of the iris, in 
the brain region, on the sympathetic wreath and in the 
region of the liver. The imposition of the yellow on the 
blue of the iris produces a greenish tint. This makes the 
" green' ' eye. While quinin has a special affinity for the 
brain and sympathetic system, we find its sign also in the 
areas of stomach, bowels, liver and spleen in the eyes of 
individuals who have taken considerable quantities of the 
drug for the treatment of malarial fevers, colds, hay fever 
and other forms of acute and chronic catarrh. 

The outer rim of this iris shows the greenish ring of 
mercury. We found it difficult to reproduce this plainly. 
It requires some practice to distinguish it in the living 
eye. The small white crescent in the right upper margin 
of the iris indicates gummata — "softening of the brain" — 
the result of the destructive action of the mercury on the 
brain tissues. Individuals who plainly exhibit this sign 
usually suffer from some form of paralysis and are ap- 
proaching the end of their suffering. 

The lymphatic or typhoid rosary shows plainly in parts 
of the outer margin of the iris. The fields of diaphragm 
and sexual organs exhibit the brownish signs of ergot, in 






118 IRIDIAGNOBIS 

this case administered for hemorrhage in childbirth. The 
triangle of the pancreas contains a psora spot. The person 
who exhibited this sign was in the last stages of diabetes. 

An iodin spot shows in the lower back. It is partly sur- 
rounded by white, indicating that the poison is in process 
of elimination. The patient who exhibited the sign told 
us that during the eliminating crises he distinctly noted 
the iodin taste. Elimination took place largely through 
furuncles. 

The lower part of the iris exhibits plainly several sec- 
tions of white nerve rings. 

Fig. d. — Brown eye. The greyish wash over the upper 
part of the iris indicates antikamnia poisoning. This is 
one of the coal tar products commonly used for the treat- 
ment of headaches, neuralgia, and neuritis of the head. 
Iridiagnosis plainly reveals the fact that the poison has a 
special affinity for the brain region, more so than other 
coal tar products. We have traced many cases of insanity 
to the effects of this drug on the brain. 

The yellowish discoloration in the region of stomach and 
bowels may be caused by sulphur or by scrofulous elimi- 
nation after the suppression of skin eruptions in child- 
hood. It must not be confounded with the yellow color of 
quinin which appears only in spots and clouds. 

The sympathetic wreath with its white rays shows some- 
what similar to that of Fig. b; the explanation is the 
same. 

The scurf rim is very broad and dark, indicating 
suppression of eczematous skin eruptions by metallic 
poisons. 

The grey cloud in the region of kidney, bladder and 
genital organs is caused by turpentine. This substance has 
a special affinity for the kidneys. The nerve rings in this 
iris are turning dark indicating that nervous irritation is 
becoming chronic. 






SIGNS OF INORGANIC MINERALS 119 

The lymphatic rosary is visible in places through the 
heavy scurf rim. 

Fig. e. — Brown eye. About two-thirds of the outer 
margin of the iris exhibits a heavy salt ring; the inner 
one-third is covered by an " acquired" scurf rim. 

The nerve rings show white, indicating acute nervous 
irritation. The lymphatic rosary shows on the inner 
margin of the scurf rim. The large crescent in the brain 
region indicates deposits of bromids and other metallic 
salts. 

The black discoloration in the digestive area stands for 
a sluggish, atrophic condition of the membranous linings 
of stomach and bowels, produced most probably by the use 
of opiates and powerful cathartics from early youth in 
the form of paregoric, calomel, etc. 

Fig. f. — Brown eye. This is a typical mercurial eye. 
The bluish rim in a brown eye indicates the presence of 
the poison in the system and its destructive effect upon the 
cuticle. The patient received many inunctions of mer- 
curial ointments. The destructive effect of the poison on 
the brain tissues is revealed by the white crescent near 
the right upper margin of the iris. 

The upper portion of the iris is covered with the greyish 
wash of coal tar products. The paralyzing effect of mer- 
cury and other poisons on the digestive tract is revealed 
by the black color in the corresponding area. Only the 
inner margin of the stomach region shows faintly the 
strychnin wheel. Much strychnin was given to overcome 
the paralyzing effect of the mercury and other drug 
poisons. 

The white rays emanating from the digestive area indi- 
cate opiates taken to deaden the pains of locomotor ataxia. 
The red spots edged with white are typical of potassium 
iodid. We frequently find them in the spinal area of 
mercurial patients. This patient being in the last stages of 



120 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

mercurial destruction, commonly called tertiary syphilis, 
the nerve rings show black, indicating the atrophic condi- 
tion of the nervous system. 

Greyish clouds in the region of the throat and in the 
lower margin show the presence of glycerin. The yellow- 
ish flakes in the lung region are caused by phosphorus 
which was administered in the form of nerve stimulants. 



The Sign of Iron (Fe) Perrum 

(Color plate, Page 116, Fig. a) 

We find that iron, after it has been taken in considerable 
quantities in the inorganic form, shows in the areas of 
stomach and bowels as a rust brown discoloration which 
closely resembles the color of iron rust (Color plate, a). I 
have verified this sign in hundreds of cases in people who 
had absorbed iron in inorganic form in medicines or in 
water strongly impregnated with the mineral. Cases like 
the following have been of frequent occurrence : 

Several years ago a lady came to one of our public 
clinics for diagnosis from the iris. The area around the 
pupil corresponding to the region of the stomach and in- 
testines, showed a very heavy iron discoloration. I asked 
whether she had not taken the mineral in some form of 
drugs or patent medicines, but this she positively denied. 
Adroit quizzing finally brought out the fact that for sev- 
eral years she had used water from the iron spring in 
Lincoln Park. After forming this habit she had suffered 
much from constipation and indigestion. 

I explained to her that these ailments were probably 
the result of the iron poisoning. Following my advice, she 
adopted a pure food natural diet and began a course of 
eliminative natural treatment. Within six months the 
iron sign had disappeared from her eyes and the digestive 
organs were in normal condition. 



SIGNS OF INOBGANIC MINERALS 121 

Iron 

Allopathic Uses : 

1. Externally on mucous membranes and broken skin 
as constringent and striptic against diffuse hemorrhages, 
catarrhal discharges and other inflammatory exudates. 

2. Internally the non-astringent preparations are used 
as hematinics together with such drugs as influence the 
diseased conditions on which the anemia or debility de- 
pend, for instance : 

3. Iron arsenate in chronic skin affections, particularly 
lupus, lepra, psoriasis, eczema, scrofula and syphilitic 
lesions. 

4. Iron sulphate in chronic diarrhea, dysentery and 
passive hemorrhages accompanied by marked relaxation. 

5. Iron bromid or iodid as tonic-alterative in atonic 
amenorrhea and chlorosis in young women. 

6. Iron glycerophosphate and iron of manganese dur- 
ing convalescense, asthenic nervous conditions and rickets. 

7. Iron valerianate, in hysterical complaints compli- 
cated with chlorosis. 

8. Iron and quinin in malarial cachixia, cardiac disease 
and nephritis. 

9. Antidote in acute arsenical poisoning, repeatedly ad- 
ministered in form of dialysed iron. 

Accidental Poisoning: 

1, Mineral waters. 

2. Proprietary blood tonics. 

Toxicology: 

1. Unabsorbed and excreted as iron sulphid, coloring 
stools black. 

2. Dyspepsia. Stubborn constipation. 

3. Abdominal pain relieved by pressure. 



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IRIDIAGNOSIS 



Sodium (Na) Natrium 

Sodium shows in the eyes in the form of a white wreath 
in the outer margin of the iris. (See Color plate, p. 
116, Figs, a and e) 

Before I became acquainted with Nature Cure, my eyes 
were heavily marked with drug signs. Some of these 
have entirely disappeared. Others are still faintly visible. 
Fig. 15 is a reproduction of charts of my eyes drawn four- 
teen years ago by Dr. Henry Lane, author of "Iridology". 

It will be noticed that there is in the outer rim of the 



RIGHT 



LEFT 




Fig. 15. Dr. Lane's Illustration Showing Appearance of Author's Eyes Six- 
teen Years Ago. 



iris a broad white ring and a narrow inner ring. These 
signs were produced by inorganic sodium which for sev- 
eral years I had taken in large quantities to neutralize a 
hyperacid condition of the stomach. 

Today, as a result of natural living and treatment, these 
sodium rings as well as many other drug signs and disease 
signs have almost entirely disappeared, as shown in Fig. 
16. The crosses in Fig. 15 indicate large iodin spots in 
liver and right kidney as they appeared sixteen years ago. 

When I was a child our family physician had coated 



SIGNS OF INORGANIC MINERALS 123 

my neck at different times with iodin for the absorption 
of enlarged lymphatic glands. The poison had been ab- 
sorbed through the skin and had accumulated in liver 
and kidney. This, together with decidedly unnatural 
habits of living, produced chronic ailments that incident- 
ally led me into the work I am now doing. 

Natural living and treatment have eliminated most of 
the sodium, as indicated in Fig. 16, but today, after forty- 
five years, the iodin spots are still faintly visible in sev- 
eral places, namely in left kidney, left lung and bronchi, 
and in right kidney and gall bladder. This proves that 




is 
The Author's Eyes at Present. 

sodium and iodin, though congenial to the human body 
in the organic form, cannot be taken with impunity in the 
inorganic mineral form. 

The history of my own case, as illustrated in these charts 
of the iris, shows that sodium is much more easily and 
quickly eliminated from the system than iodin. In this 
way iridology answers the question, "How long does it 
take to eliminate foreign matter and poisons from the 
system ?" 

We have observed that the symptoms of drug poisoning 
usually disappear much earlier than do the signs from the 
iris. This apparent contradiction can be accounted for 



124 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

by the fact that under the influence of natural living and 
treatment the general constitutional conditions are so im- 
proved that, although some of the poison is still present, 
the stronger organs are now able to compensate for the 
deficiency on the part of the weaker ones and therefore 
the effects of the drug poisoning are compensated for to 
some extent.* It may also be possible that drug poisons 
are more readily eliminated from vital organs than from 
the iris, on account of the more active metabolism in the 
former. 

As regards signs of those minerals and earthy substances 
which are naturally present in the human body, we find 
that iron, sodium, lime, sulphur and magnesium disappear 
much more quickly from the iris than iodin and phos- 
phorus, indicating that the latter are more destructive 
and more difficult to dislodge. 

Potassium (Kalium, K), Lime (Calcium, Ca) and 
Magnesium (Mg) 

Inorganic lime, magnesium and potassium show in the 
outer margin of the iris in the form of a grayish white 
wreath somewhat similar to sodium. (Color plate, p. 116, 
Figs, a and e.) 

Only recently I examined a patient Who came to us for 
diagnosis and treatment from far-away New Mexico. His 
iris exhibited very heavy sodium rings similar to my own 
as represented in Fig. 15, p. 122. Quizzing at first failed to 
reveal the source of the mineral accumulation in his sys- 
tem. Finally, however, it became apparent that the sign 
in the iris must have been produced by drinking for many 
years the water from the shallow wells of his native plains, 
strongly impregnated with alkali. These signs gradually 



*See Chapter XXIV, entitled "Basic Diagnosis". 



SIGNS OF INORGANIC MINERALS 125 

disappear from the iris when the patient abstains from 
the use of mineral waters and adopts eliminative diet and 
treatment. 

In the light of Nature's records in the iris, it is little less 
than criminal to give inorganic lime water, baking soda, 
iron, magnesium and table salt to little babes in artificial 
food mixtures when good cow's milk and fruit juices con- 
tain these minerals in great abundance in the live, organic 
(vitamine) form. 

In the organic form in fruit juices and raw vegetable 
extracts, all these minerals may be taken continually in 
large quantities and will not show in the iris. An excess 
is easily eliminated from the system through the excretory 
organs, and we may safely say that the organism does not 
contain an excess of these positive mineral elements until 
a point is reached where the reaction of the urine is 
natural. 

Thus Nature's records in the iris prove conclusively 
that she does not intend us to use these elements in the 
inorganic mineral form. The only apparent exception to 
this rule seems to be sodium chlorid, our common table 
salt. This might be explained by the fact that sodium 
chlorid is one of the ordinary products of kidney elimi- 
nation, while other sodium combinations are not. There 
is no reason, however, why we should endanger health by 
using the table salt in such enormous quantities as is cus- 
tomary, since we can supply the demand of the system for 
sodium chlorid in the organic form by adding a liberal 
quantity of fruits and vegetables to our diet. There is no 
doubt whatever that table salt, when taken habitually and 
in considerable quantities, is very injurious to the system. 
The reasons for and against the use of salt have been 
fully discussed in the chapter entitled, ' ' To Salt or Not to 
Salt", in the Nature Cure Cook Book, Vol. Ill of this 
series. 



126 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

Sulphur (S) 
(Color plate, page 116, Pig. d) 

Sulphur, taken in the inorganic form, shows in the iris 
in the area of stomach and intestines in the yellow sulphur 
color. After absorption it has at first a stimulating effect 
upon these organs, but this is gradually followed by a 
sluggish, atrophic condition. Sometimes it is difficult to 
distinguish the sulphur color from the yellow color of 
quinin or the yellowish color of scrofulous elimination 
through the digestive organs. 



CHAPTER XI 

SIGNS OF POISONS IN THE EYE 

The mineral elements discussed in the previous chapter 
are normally present in animal and human bodies and 
therefore are not poisonous in themselves unless ingested 
in the inorganic mineral form. There are, however, many 
inorganic and organic substances so inimical to health 
and life that Nature never designed either animal or 
human bodies to receive them as foods or medicine. They 
are always poisonous to the system, even when taken in 
small quantities, and have a strong tendency to accumu- 
late in parts and organs for which they exhibit particular 
affinity. Their presence and location is shown in the iris 
by well denned signs and discolorations as presented in 
the color plate on page 116. In the following I shall de- 
scribe some of the best known an$ most widely used of 
these poisons, their signs in the iris and their effects upon 
the system. 

Difficulties the Iridologist Must Meet 

In the majority of cases the iris plainly displays signs of 
poisonous substances. However, when the diagnostician 
describes these poison records in the iris, the patient fre- 
quently denies with vehemence ever having taken "any- 
thing of the kind". He is unmindful of the following 
facts : 

First, that poisons are absorbed and thereafter remain 
indefinitely in certain parts of the system unless elimi- 
nated by radical methods. 

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128 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

Second, that in the treatment of some " trifling chil- 
dren's disease", frequently enough poisons are given to 
affect the vital organs and the iris for life. 

Third, that poisons may be absorbed not only from pat- 
ent medicines and remedies prescribed by physicians, but 
in various other ways, as lead from water pipes and glass- 
ware, from paints and printer's type; mercury in mines, 
smelters, mirror factories and from cosmetics; arsenic 
from green colors, wall paper, stuffed animals, etc. Al- 
most every known poison is now used extensively in the 
arts and industries and in the preparation of multitudinous 
foods and other articles for daily use. 

Keports of government chemists in Washington, whose 
duty it is to examine food products for purity and quality, 
reveal astonishing conditions. They show that almost 
every kind of food for sale in grocery and market is con- 
taminated or adulterated with deleterious substances, in- 
organic minerals, anilin dyes and various sorts of chem- 
icals and poisons. 

Comments like the following by Dr. "Wiley are common 
in magazines and the daily press, and are of interest in 
this connection : 

"Professor Wiley's reference was particularly to the anilin dyes, 
derived from coal tar, which are used for coloring jellies and 
wines, as well as a great number of other food products and drink- 
ables. Not long ago the Bureau of Chemistry dyed experimentally 
a number of pieces of white silk with chemical colors obtained from 
various liquors and articles of diet put up for commercial purposes. 

" Preserved cherries, utilized in this manner, furnished a yard of 
pink silk; currant jam a yard of salmon silk; port wine a yard of 
purple silk; Burgundy wine a yard of magenta silk; tomato catsup 
a yard of light red silk, etc. The "rosaline" used for coloring 
corned beef and sausage gave a dye of a beautiful and brilliant red. 
But in this line nothing has been found so suggestive of the rain- 
bow as soda water syrups, which, taken in a bunch, are a chemical 
polychrome. 

"The cheap candies which the children buy are ofttimes most 



SIGNS OF POISONS IN THE EYE 129 

deleterious, containing clay, arsenic, sulphate of copper, and even 
prussic acid. Also, they are colored with the deadly anilin dyes. 
Many of the cheaper brands of chocolate on the market are com- 
posed mainly of starch and animal fat. They do not taste much 
like chocolate, but they easily pass for it, with the addition of 
oxid of iron — that is to say, iron rust — to give the requisite color. 

"One plate of cheap ice cream analyzed at the Bureau of Chem- 
istry was found to contain as much fusel oil as five glasses of bad 
whisky. Of strawberry flavor, or what passed for such, it was in 
truth a chemical compound. 

"A medicinal dose of sulphate of copper is three grains. Eat three 
small, artificially greened pickles, and you will get an equal quan- 
tity of this dangerous chemical. The salts of copper and zinc are 
commonly employed to give a green color to peas, beans and other 
vegetables preserved for market in cans or glass jars." 

Reports like the foregoing explain how certain poison 
signs may appear in the iris, even when the victim is un- 
aware of ' ' ever having taken such things ' \ 

Many people believe that the passage of the Pure Food 
Law has done away with wholesale food poisoning. They 
are seriously mistaken. All that the Pure Food Law pro- 
hibits is the use of poisonous substances in quantities large 
enough to injure the human body immediately. The law 
does not take into consideration the fact that the destruc- 
tive effects may be cumulative and remote. In this respect 
the government falls into the same error as the medical 
profession. This is not to be wondered at since repre- 
sentatives of the allopathic school of medicine have assisted 
in framing these laws. 

A single dose of a certain drug poison given as medi- 
cine or used as a food preservative may not be harmful, 
but these poisons, as proved by the records in the iris, 
have a tendency to accumulate in the system in certain 
parts or organs for which they exhibit a special affinity. 
Therefore many small consecutive doses of poisonous med- 
icines or food preservatives or adulterants will in time 
produce the effect of a big dose. This explains the pres- 



130 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

ence of the signs of boric acid salicylites, copper, lead, 
zinc, coal tar poisons, etc., in the eyes of people who "do 
not know of ever having taken these things". 

Doctors Don't Believe in Giving Strong Medicines 

Some time ago in a public clinic I detected in the iris 
of a young man the evidences of strychnin, iodin, quinin 
and mercury. He strenuously denied having taken so 
many poisons. 

"My doctor," said he, "does not believe in giving strong 
medicines ,and I am sure I have never taken all that stuff. ' ' 

I asked him to bring to the next clinic some of his doc- 
tor's prescriptions. A few days later he complied with 
the request and brought two of the most recent ones. 
Both contained three of the poisons which the diagnosis 
had revealed in the iris. Of course he had taken the same 
drugs many years ago. Otherwise they would not have 
shown in the iris at the time of the diagnosis. 

Records in the Iris More Reliable Than Memory 

The following incident illustrates that the records in 
the iris are frequently much more reliable than the mem- 
ory of the patient. Several years ago an elderly woman 
came for diagnosis and treatment. The outer margins of 
her iris showed distinctly the whitish flakes of arsenic 
(Color plate, Fig. b, p. 116) and in the left cerebrum a 
heavy red blotch of iodin. Referring to the signs of ar- 
senic, I said to her, "You suffer with severe pains all over 
your body and your muscles are sensitive to touch." 

She acknowledged that "rheumatism" and multiple 
neuritis had for many years been the curse of her life. 
Referring to the iodin spot in the left brain, I continued 
my diagnosis: "You must have had severe chronic left 
side headaches." 



SIGNS OF POISONS IN THE EYE 131 

This she also confirmed. For twenty years she had never 
been free from an excruciating headache ; as she expressed 
it, "It often seemed my head would split in two." 

Naturally she wished to learn the cause of her long 
continued suffering, but when I informed her that arsenic 
and iodin were responsible for her "rheumatism" and 
chronic headaches, she denied ever having taken these 
drugs. 

"In my younger years, ' ' said she, "before these ailments 
developed, I was a strong, healthy girl and never took 
medicines of any kind. How could arsenic and iodin have 
caused these troubles?" 

A few weeks later, however, in consultation she inad- 
vertently remarked that her husband, who was a musician, 
employed his leisure hours by stuffing the skins of wild 
animals. 

"Did he use arsenic in his taxidermic work?" I inquired. 
"Oh, yes," she answered. "He often explained to me 
that his animals were so well preserved because he used 
large quantities of arsenic in their preparation." 

"Did you have many of these animals around the 
house?" 

"They were in the parlor, sitting room and in the bed- 
rooms." 

Noticing my smile, she added, "I see now where the 
arsenic and the 'rheumatism' came from." 

I then continued, "Now, let us find out where the iodin 
came from." 

Her interest in the diagnosis being thoroughly aroused, 
she cogitated a few moments over past experiences and 
then exclaimed, "How could I have forgotten? Twenty 
five years ago, when a servant in Berlin, I accidentally 
hurt my knee. A painful swelling followed. The cook 
told me to go into her room and take some medicine that 



J32 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

had cured her rheumatism and would be just the thing 
for my knee." 

"Acting on the suggestion, I took a good swallow from 
the cook's bottle. That was the last I remembered for 
several days. When I regained consciousness I was told 
that the medicine was a strong preparation of iodin for 
external use only." 

Latin Names to Cover Ignorance 

Prospective patients expect to hear from us the same 
old familiar Greek and Latin names which they have heard 
from other doctors, professors and specialists. If the diag- 
nostician from the iris fails to employ the same familiar 
terms, they are skeptical of the diagnosis. 

Suppose a doctor, listening to a patient who describes 
his changing aches and pains should say to him, "My 
dear sir, you suffer with moving pains," the patient would 
answer indignantly, "I know that myself; I want to know 
what my disease is." If the doctor tells him he has 
"rheumatism", which (in English) means nothing more 
nor less than "moving pains ", his client is perfectly sat- 
isfied, pays his fee and goes home well pleased that he now 
knows what ails him. He has "rheumatism". 

Several weeks ago a woman came to me for diagnosis. 
The iris revealed the greenish wreath of mercury in the 
region of brain and spinal cord. The areas of stomach, 
bowels and liver were dark brown. The following con- 
versation took place : 

"For many years you have been suffering from indi- 
gestion, chronic constipation and sluggishness of the liver. 
To better conditions, you have taken a great deal of 
calomel. ' ' 

"It is the only way I can keep my bowels open and my 
liver active." 

"Of late years you have had shooting pains in the back, 



SIGNS OF POISONS IN THE EYE 133 

the lower limbs and around the stomach. The calomel, 
which is mercury, is causing inflammation of the spinal 
cord. ,, 

The woman confirmed every symptom revealed by the 
records in the eyes, but did not return for treatment. 
Several days later a friend of hers informed me that she 
was not at all satisfied because I had failed to tell her 
she had rheumatism. " Every other doctor has told me I 
have rheumatism, ' * she had complained, "and if the diag- 
nosis from the iris cannot show that much it is not to be 
relied upon.'' As a matter of fact she is in the advanced 
stages of locomotor ataxia. 

Not All Conditions in the Body Visible in the Iris 

As before stated, not all poisons taken, injuries sus- 
tained, nor all pathological lesions show in the iris. Many 
times we are disappointed by not finding the lesions we 
are looking for. Drug poisons may be eliminated from 
the system in some cases more readily than in others. In- 
dividuals differ greatly in drug tolerance. That is, some 
eliminate certain poisons very readily and very thoroughly 
while others are permanently affected by even small doses. 

Hahnemann, speaking of mercury, said, "Some people 
are so susceptible to this drug that even a few doses of it 
make them 'weather prophets' for life." 

Iridology is a comparatively new science and many 
things about it remain to be discovered and to be ex- 
plained. We do claim, however, that the well proven 
facts which we already possess are sufficient to make this 
new science of immense value to the diagnostician and 
physician. 

Alteratives 

Mercury, iodin and arsenic are the principal alteratives. 
The multitudinous preparations of these drugs are used 



134 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

by the allopathic school principally in the treatment of 
syphilis. Should you ask a doctor how these drugs cure 
disease, if truthful he would have to answer, * ' We do not 
know." Sajous tries to explain the action of mercury 
and other alteratives by saying they stimulate the activity 
of the ductless glands. For this assertion, however, he 
cannot produce the slightest proof. 

A medical dictionary which I have before me gives the 
following definition: " Alteratives are certain remedies 
that alter the course of morbid conditions in some way 
not yet understood, perhaps by promoting metabolism. 
We know, for instance, that mercury cures syphilitic sores 
or arsenic chronic skin diseases, but we do not know how 
or why." 

The solution of the problem seems so obvious that it is 
hard to understand how and why it has baffled medical 
science so long. The fundamental law of cure will help us 
to solve the mystery. According to this law all acute 
diseases are the result of Nature's efforts to expel inner 
latent morbid encumbrances. In other words, acute dis- 
eases represent increased and specialized activity of vital 
force. 

When we introduce into the system, in the form of mer- 
cury, iodin or arsenic, a stronger and more dangerous 
enemy than the constitutional disease taint which Nature 
is trying to eliminate, then the healing forces, like good 
tacticians, leave the weaker foe for a time and turn to 
repel the new and more dangerous invader. 

A man attacked by a child easily defends himself, but 
when confronted by a powerful adult, turns from the 
weaker foe to the stronger. Similarly the healing forces 
of the human organism turn from their fight against local 
or constitutional disease taint to defend themselves against 
the stronger drug poison. The disease taints recede into 
the system, the surface symptoms disappear, the patient 



SIGNS OF POISONS IN THE EYE 135 

thinks he is cured, but the doctor knows better because in 
medical college he has been taught " Never guarantee a 
cure". 

After a while Nature may reassert herself and make 
another attempt to eliminate the disease poisons. Again 
and again her benevolent efforts are suppressed until the 
entire organism is saturated with mercury or other altera- 
tives to the point where vital force, weakened and defeated 
in every quarter, can no longer react against the disease 
taints. 

This process of progressive poisoning may have to be 
maintained for two or three years before vital force is 
effectually defeated and bound; then the patient is told 
he "may now safely marry". 

What is the real state of affairs? The outward mani- 
festations of healing activity, the scrofulous, syphilitic 
or tuberculous sores, the itch or eczema have disappeared 
from the surface, but these disorders are by no means 
cured. On their retreat into the interior, the danger from 
the disease taints is always great and it often happens 
that they invade and destroy vital parts and organs. The 
external discharge or ulcer may become internal tuber- 
culosis or cancer. 



CHAPTER XII 
MERCURY, HYDRARGYRUM OR QUICKSILVER 

(Color plate, Figs, c and f, Page 116) 

These are the three names for the only liquid metallic 
element. It is used as medicine in more than a hundred 
different forms. The nitrates, oxids, ehlorids and iodids 
are the salts most frequently employed in medicine. Other 
preparations commonly used are blue mass and calomel, 
and in syphilis the bichlorid, the yellow iodid and the red 
iodid. Still other preparations are cyanid, the yellow 
sub sulphate, mercury and chalk, the plaster and the 
iodid of mercury and arsenic, yellow wash, black wash, 
corrosive sublimate, etc. 

Effect of Drug from the Viewpoint of Natural Therapeutics 

In the first few years, after the mercury has been ab- 
sorbed by the organism, and while it is "wandering" in 
the circulation and in the tissues, it shows in the iris, espe- 
cially in the upper half, as a whitish film. After five or 
more years it begins to condense into a greenish crescent 
of metallic luster on the uppermost margin of the brain 
region in the blue eye and of bluish color in the brown 
eye. In serious cases this greenish rim may extend all 
around the outer margin of the iris. The metal, on account 
of its deteriorating effect upon the skin, also greatly 
broadens and intensifies the scurf rim. (Color plate, Fig. 
d, p. 116) 

It takes this treacherous, insidious poison from five to 
fifteen years to create its havoc in the brain and nervous 

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MERCURY, HYDRARGYRUM OR QUICKSILVER 137 

system. When this commences, unless radical measures 
are employed, it marks the beginning of the end — the de- 
velopment of locomotor ataxia, paralysis agitans, paresis, 
etc. 

The first and secondary stages of syphilis mark Na- 
ture's efforts to expel the syphilitic virus; the tertiary 
stage is due to the destructive effects of mercury, iodin, 
potassium, salvarsan (arsenic), etc., on the brain, spinal 
cord and other vital organs. 

"All wrong,' ' exclaims the allopath, "these tertiary 
symptoms are due to syphilis, not to mercury.' ' 

To this we answer, "Not so; we have treated hundreds 
of cases of luetic diseases but not a single one has ever 
developed any tertiary symptoms." 

Syphilitic cases under favorable circumstances recover 
under homeopathic or Christian Science treatment. If 
the highly diluted remedy or the metaphysical formula 
does not actually cure the disease, it at least does not inter- 
fere with Nature's cleansing, healing processes. 

Treatment under our system usually lasts from three 
to six months and after this natural cure the patient's 
system is purer than before infection because the ulcers, 
discharges or skin eruptions have acted as fontanelles and 
the treatment has eliminated r.ot only the venereal virus, 
but also other hereditary and acquired taints latent in the 
system. 

On the other hand, we have in every case of locomotor 
ataxia, paralysis agitans or paresis, unraveled a history of 
some form of alterative treatment and usually found the 
corresponding signs of these poisons in the iris. 

Says the allopath, "This talk does not amount to any- 
thing ; it is unorthodox and unscientific ; all our authorities 
contradict it." 

Possibly; but the experience of thousands of patients, 
for twenty to thirty years slowly tortured to death, verifies 



138 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

it. Not even the fanatical inquisition nor the imaginative 
brain of a cruel Indian has ever invented tortures more 
inhuman and devastating than those inflicted by the " al- 
teratives ". How much more merciful would it be to give 
these victims of medical malpractice in the beginning a 
good big dose of an " alterative' ' and have done with it! 

When you see vigorous, blue eyed manhood succumb 
in the prime of life to destructive diseases " which have 
never before been in the family " — think of the alteratives ! 

When you see a young wife, once the embodiment of 
health, fading away after marriage, a victim of mysterious 
ailments — think of the alteratives! Medical authorities 
claim that over fifty per cent of all men in large cities 
have been treated for venereal diseases. 

When you see the offspring of a healthy mother made 
defective by scrofula, chronic catarrh, decayed teeth, epi- 
lepsy or idiocy— think of the alteratives ! Anemia, rachitis 
and scrofulous constitutions in children are only too often 
due to the poisoned blood of their progenitors. 

With every additional year of practice and observation 
my conviction is strengthened that drug poisoning is the 
most fruitful source of chronic and hereditary disease. 
Nature tries to remedy the effects of wrong living by 
acute reactions of brief duration, but three fourths of the 
most dreadful cases of chronic disease coming to us for 
diagnosis and treatment are caused by the suppression of 
Nature's acute healing efforts and by the destructive 
effects of poisonous drugs, vaccines, serums, antitoxins, 
and of uncalled for surgical operations. 

Locomotor ataxia, paralysis agitans and paresis are man 
made. Nature never punishes and curses her children in 
such a dreadful manner. All such suffering is the result of 
human ignorance, prejudice and indifference. 

Lest these statements appear exaggerated and icono- 
clastic, I shall quote passages from various allopathic au- 



MERCUEY, HYDRARGYRUM OR QUICKSILVER 139 

thorities who consciously or unwittingly confirm my 
position. 

A. Ross Diefendorf, M. D., is an authority on mental 
diseases in this country. He was formerly lecturer on 
Psychiatry at Yale University and a member of many 
medical societies. 

His book "Clinical Psychiatry" is in common use as a 
text-book in many American colleges. It is interesting to 
note how unconsciously he confirms our claims that mer- 
cury and not syphilis is to blame for the entire train of 
so called syphilitic symptoms. On page 276 in the work 
before mentioned, Dr. Diefendorf says, in Chapter VI on 
Dementia Paralytica (Paresis) : 

' ' Dementia Paralytica, or general paresis of the insane, is a chronic 
psychosis of middle age, characterized by progressive mental de- 
terioration with symptoms of excitation of the central nervous 
system, leading to absolute dementia and paralysis, and patholog- 
ically, by a fairly definite series of organic changes in the brain 
and spinal cord, probably the result of some toxin, in the origin of 
which syphilis is most often an important factor. 

"Etiology. — The disease is unknown among the uncivilized na- 
tions and is most prevalent in western Europe and North America, 
hence, it seems to be a disease of modern civilization. In America, 
the disease comprises from five to eight per cent of the admissions 
to insane institutions, but in some European cities, notably Berlin 
and Munich, the paretics average thirty-six to forty-five per cent 
of the male admissions. The disease is somewhat more prevalent 
in large cities and manufacturing centers, while it is relatively 
rare in farming communities. ' ' 

Uncivilized nations do not treat syphilis or other dis- 
eases with mercury; therefore, we find among them no 
Dementia Paralytica, locomotor ataxia or paralysis agi- 
tans. These diseases are found only in localities of the 
earth where drug stores flourish. 

Therefore, paralytic diseases are more prevalent in large 
cities and manufacturing centers where syphilitic diseases 



140 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

and consequent mercurial treatment are more prevalent. 
Page 277, 

"Negresses show a striking tendency to the disease; in Connecti- 
cut the negress paretics are ten times more prevalent than the 
female white paretics. " 

If negroes are free from the disease in Africa, as med- 
ical authorities state, but "show a striking tendency" to 
it in civilized countries, how can this be explained except 
on the ground that the disease is the product of unnatural 
treatment and drug poisoning? 

"Our average age of onset in 172 cases is fortytwo years. Krae- 
pelin in 249 cases finds that it occurs preeminently in middle life, 
as eightyone per cent of the cases occur between thirty and fifty 
years, the disease rarely appearing before twentyfive or after fifty* 
five years of age." 

Syphilitic diseases are usually contracted between the 
ages of twenty and thirty and it takes from ten to twenty 
years for mercury to complete its work of destruction in 
brain and nerve matter. 

"Becently a number of cases of juvenile paresis have been re- 
ported occurring between the ages of ten to twenty years, in which 
hereditary paresis, syphilis and alcoholism are prominent factors. 
Clinically, the juvenile form is characterized by simple deteriora- 
tion of three to four years' duration with numerous paralytic 
attacks, choreic disturbances, and paralyses." 

Frequently young children are subjected to prolonged 
mercurial treatment on the mere suspicion that they have 
hereditary syphilis, or for curing eczemata. 

Scenes like the following are of almost daily occur- 
rence in medical clinics. A mother enters the clinic with 
a child whose body is covered with skin eruptions. One 
professor says the disease is of a scrofulous nature, an- 
other calls it eczema, another hereditary syphilis. The 
mother denies that the latter disease has ever been in the 



MEECURY, HYDEAEGYEUM OR QUICKSILVEB 141 

family. The professor tells the students: "You can never 
believe syphilities, they always lie." "We can easily find 
out/' he continues, "whether this eruption is of a syphi- 
litic nature or not. Put the patient for six months under 
mercurial treatment and if the eruptions permanently dis- 
appear, then the case is syphilitic.' ' 

Thus hundreds and thousands of people in civilized 
countries are innocently subjected to the horrible suffer- 
ing incidental to mercurial poisoning without ever having 
contracted venereal diseases. 

Another large percentage of paralytic and paretic pa- 
tients have accumulated the mercury in the guise of liver 
and bowel tonics (calomel) and antiseptics. 

On page 278, Dr. Dief endorf says : 

' ' The disease afflicts chiefly the unmarried, and among the women 
especially prostitutes; in our experience prostitutes are fortyfive 
per cent more prone to the disease than other women. 

" Among the causes of the disease, syphilis is statistically the 
most prominent. Its prevalence varies, according to various au- 
thors, from one and six tenths per cent to ninetythree per cent, but 
most observers place it between thirtyfour and sixtyfive per cent. 
In our experience it existed in fiftytwo per cent." 

On page 288, he says : 

( ' The character of the toxin and the sources from which it arises 
are questions still in doubt. Syphilis cannot be the sole cause of 
paresis, as long as it does not exist in more than thirtyfour to 
sixtyfive per cent of the cases. Furthermore, paresis, anatomically, 
is not a simple syphilitic process. Again the late manifestations of 
syphilis arise within a comparatively short time after primary 
Lymptoms, while paresis does not develop until ten or more years 
have elapsed after the initial lesion.' ' 

No, syphilis is not the sole cause of paralytic and paretic 
diseases and the character of the toxin from which they 
arise is not in doubt — it is mercury or some other altera- 
tive. 



142 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

This is exactly what I have always claimed. Syphilis is 
an acute infections disease, which under right treatment 
runs its natural course within a comparatively short time, 
never to appear again unless a new infection has taken 
place. 

On the other hand, the history of people who never had 
syphilis, but who were poisoned by mercury in mine or 
factory, proves that it takes from ten to fifteen years 
before the poison exhibits its worst effects. 

Professor E. A. Farrington of Philadelphia, one of the 
most celebrated homeopathic physicians of the nineteenth 
century, says concerning the destructive after effects of 
mercury, of which homeopaths have made careful study 
("Clinical Materia Medica", third edition, pages 558-559) : 

"The more remote symptoms of mercurial poisoning are these: 
You will find that the blood becomes impoverished. The albumin 
and fibrin of that fluid are affected. They are diminished, and you 
find in their place a certain fatty substance, the composition of 
which I do not exactly know. Consequently, as a prominent symp- 
tom, the body wastes and emaciates. The patient suffers from 
fever, which is rather hectic in its character. The periosteum be- 
comes affected, and you then have a characteristic group of mer- 
curial pains, bone pains worse in changes of the weather, worse in 
the warmth of the bed, and chilliness with and after stool. The 
skin becomes rather of a brownish hue; ulcers form, particularly on 
the legs; they are stubborn and will not heal. The patient is trou- 
bled with sleeplessness and ebullitions of blood at night; he is hot 
and cannot sleep; he is thrown quickly into a perspiration, which 
perspiration gives him no relief. 

"The entire system suffers also, and you have here two series of 
symptoms. At first the patient becomes anxious and restless and 
cannot remain quiet; he changes his position; he moves about 
from place to place; he seems to have a great deal of anxiety about 
the heart, praecordial anguish, as it is termed, particularly at night. 

"Then, in another series of symptoms, there are jerkings of the 
limbs, making the patient appear as though he were attacked by 
St. Vitus' dance. Or, you may notice what is more common yet, 
trembling of the hands, this tremor being altogether beyond the 



MERCURY, HYDRARGYRUM OR QUICKSILVER 143 

control of the patient and gradually spreading over the entire body, 
giving you a resemblance to paralysis agitans or shaking palsy. 

"Finally, the patient becomes paralyzed, cannot move his limbs, 
his mind becomes lost, and he presents a perfect picture of imbe- 
cility. He does all sorts of queer things. He sits in the corner 
with an idiotic smile on his face, playing with straws; he is forget- 
ful, cannot remember even the most ordinary events. He becomes 
disgustingly filthy and eats his own excrement. In fact, he is a 
perfect idiot. 

"Be careful how you give mercury; it is a treacherous medicine. 
It seems often indicated. You give it and relieve; but your patient 
is worse again in a few weeks, and then you give it again with 
relief. By and by, it fails you. Now, if I want to make a per- 
manent cure, for instance, in a scrofulous child, I will very seldom 
give him mercury; should I do so, it will be at least only as an 
intercurrent remedy." 

Dr. Hermann, of Vienna, has written several books in 
which he proves that syphilis is not a constitutional dis- 
ease, that under proper hygienic living and treatment it is 
self limited, that it runs its regular natural course and 
when properly treated never produces any tertiary 
symptoms. 

This I, myself, have proved in hundreds of cases. It is 
impossible to quote a better authority for these facts than 
Dr. Hermann. For thirty years he was superintendent 
of the syphilitic wards in the Hospital Wieden, near 
Vienna, one of the greatest institutions in the world for 
the treatment of luetic ailments. 

He claims that during the thirty years of his incumbency 
he treated sixty thousand cases of syphilitic diseases with- 
out the use of mercury and that not in a single case thus 
treated and cured did he observe a spontaneous recur- 
rence, an exhibition of tertiary symptoms or hereditary 
transmission. His work was done in a municipal institu- 
tion to which the doctors and students of Vienna had free 
access, and thus was constantly under the closest scrutiny 
of the great medical schools of Vienna. 



144 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

I take the liberty of translating some interesting pas- 
sages from his book. "Es giebt keine constitutionelle 
syphilis' ' — "Syphilis is not a constitutional disease.' ' 

"Syphilis is as old as humanity. Its peculiar symptoms 
are described in the Third Book of Moses ; the disease was 
well known to Hippocrates and Celsus and is minutely 
described by Tremelius and Beza as well as by many other 
writers of subsequent centuries. 

"After the discovery of America, diseases of this type 
were found, in exactly the same form as we know them 
today, among the Indians. At the end of the fifteenth 
century they appeared as discharge or ulcer, with or with- 
out following fig warts (Condyloma), inflammation of the 
glands and skin eruptions. These always appear in direct 
organic connection with one of the original lesions. 

"Until then, syphilis was looked upon as a simple local 
disease which ran its natural course without affecting the 
organism as a whole. It was thoroughly cured by hy- 
gienic, natural methods of treatment. There were no 
tertiary symptoms nor transmission to offspring. All the 
old physicians held this opinion; this is proved by the 
fact that up to the end of the fifteenth century constitu- 
tional syphilis is nowhere mentioned or described. 

"In 1786 Hunter first spoke of its local and constitu- 
tional forms. He described the hard chancre as a symp- 
tom of the malignant form and originated the idea of 
constitutional syphilis. 

"Ulcers of the mucous membranes, skin eruptions, in- 
flammations of the iris and of the bones were classed by 
him as secondary symptoms. The later affections of the 
inner organs, of the liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain, 
nerves and blood vessels, hair and nails were looked upon 
as tertiary and quaternary forms. 

"In view of these teachings of the regular school, the 
question arises : is the syphilis of former centuries another 



MERCURY, HYDRARGYRUM OR QUICKSILVER 145 

disease than the one we know? Is modern syphilis a new 
disease, unknown to the ancients, or were they lacking in 
diagnostic ability, since they did not suspect the existence 
of the constitutional disease ? 

' ' The ancient physicians were right. Syphilis, originat- 
ing in the human organism, is undoubtedly the same dis- 
ease now as then. It has not changed its origin and has 
always run its natural course without transgressing nat- 
ural limits. 

"The physicians of antiquity observed conscientiously 
and with understanding the course of the disease and 
treated it rationally, as a local ailment which never af- 
fected the organism as a whole." 

These expositions of Dr. Hermann I can fully confirm. 
Of the hundreds of cases of syphilis and gonorrhea which 
have been treated by us from their inception (before 
any form of suppressive treatment had been applied), not 
a single one has developed constitutional symptoms or 
hereditary tendencies. Our natural methods of treatment 
purify the system from within, allow the disease to run its 
natural course, unhindered and unchecked. When under 
such treatment discharges, ulcers, inflammations and erup- 
tions disappear, the organism is as pure as before infec- 
tion, if not more pure. We say this advisedly ; the natural 
process of elimination removes not only the disease virus 
but other hereditary and acquired taints as well. 

On page 47 of his book, Dr. Hermann continues: "The 
disease conditions usually diagnosed as constitutional 
syphilis are the results of mercurial treatment or of other 
disease taints in the body. 

"This I prove, first by clinical observation of the nat- 
ural course of the disease, and second by the positive 
chemical proof of the presence of mercury in the system." 

We have found the mercury in the ashes of the bones of 
mercurial patients. A patient is coming to us now who 



146 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

went through a course of mercurial treatment two years 
ago. The gold rings on his fingers turn black under the 
effect of the mercury which his system is now eliminating. 

Page 48: " Among the thousands of luetics whom for 
thirty years I observed in the Hospital Wieden in Vienna 
and who were treated without mercury, not a single one 
developed symptoms of constitutional syphilis. 

" Cases of so called constitutional syphilis that came to 
us suffering with ulcerations of the palate, mouth and 
nose, with bone pains, gummata of the brain and inflam- 
mations of the nerves, all had histories of mercurial treat- 
ment. Hundreds of electrolytical analyses of urine, 
sputum, perspiration, blood and other body materials re- 
vealed the presence of mercury, while a comparatively 
small percentage exhibited scrofulous or tuberculous 
symptoms. 

"Thus it became clear to me that the entire chain of 
symptoms which are commonly diagnosed as constitutional 
syphilis are nothing but the effects of mercury in the 
human body. 

"Workers salivated in the mercury mines in Idria, who 
never suffered with syphilis, exhibit all the symptoms of 
so called secondary and tertiary syphilis. In the blood 
and urine of these patients I also found mercury. In fact, 
the various forms of mercurialism everywhere occur among 
people who continually come in contact with mercury 
and thus absorb it; no age, no sex is immune. This is 
verified by physicians practicing among quick-silver 
miners, mirror, thermometer and barometer makers,, 
etc. 

"For these reasons chronic mercurialism is always prev- 
alent in localities where, by physicians and laymen, syph- 
ilis is treated by mercury. Mercurialism is very common 
on the coast of the Adriatic, the Ost and North Sea and 
the Mediterranean, because in these countries quicksilver 



MERCURY, HYDRARGYRUM OR QUICKSILVER 147 

in its various forms is in common use as a universal home 
remedy. 

' ' In large inland cities and sea ports, chronic mercurial- 
ism is much more prevalent than in country districts, be- 
cause, in the former, syphilis and its mercurial treatment 
are much more common than in the latter. . . . 

"The question naturally arises why, in spite of strictly 
scientific proof and of extraordinary practical results, 
these very teachings are not generally accepted and why 
the regular school has not examined officially my theory 
and treatment. The answer is evident. Ancient systems 
of medicine with all their errors, assumptions, supersti- 
tions and prejudices, are deeply rooted in medical science. 
The schools, blindly worshipping authority, have strenu- 
ously opposed strictly scientific investigations. The nat- 
ural treatment of syphilis brings light into the dark 
labyrinth of the old system, destroys the nimbus of old 
school wisdom and the idol worship of quicksilver treat- 
ment. 

"The world resents nothing so deeply and punishes 
nothing so harshly as the uprooting of dear old supersti- 
tions ; therefore the bitter opposition of the regular school 
to my teaching and my practice. 

"What wonder that my enemies, in fanatical zeal, tried 
to oust me from my stronghold in the Hospital Wieden, 
when Dr. Hebra, according to his own confession, wished : 
'That the hospital might be blown into the air.' 

"In 1867, by means of unjust accusations, my enemies 
succeeded in procuring a government investigation of my 
work and my institution. In 1868, however, their machi- 
nations met with miserable defeat, for Dr. Hebra, the head 
of the commission appointed to investigate my methods, 
had to admit in his official report : * That the government 
could sustain no objection against the anti-mercurial 
treatment of syphilis in the Hospital Wieden.' In justi- 



148 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

fieation of their own methods he added: ' Syphilis is cur- 
able without mercury but we give it because it cures the 
disease quicker and because, it is harmless.' " 

On page 83, Dr. Hermann continues: "Finally I re- 
tired, firmly hoping that for some time at least my methods 
of treatment, eminently successful for thirty years, would 
be maintained. But this last and fervent desire of my 
declining days was not to be fulfilled. In the holy place 
where, for a life time, I battled bravely against the abuses 
of mercurialism are now restored the altars devoted to 
the fetich quicksilver. . . . 

. . . "The quacks and charlatans will again exploit 
the blind, foolish and superstitious masses and will again 
endanger and destroy the public health; syphilis will re- 
appear in the horrible forms so common thirty years ago. 

"The people themselves, realizing the terrible effects 
of mercurialism, must energetically oppose the false teach- 
ings of the schools, must bear witness to the truth and 
protect their bodies against contamination with the vile 
poison. In recognition of the fact that the mercurial 
treatment practiced by the schools endangers not only 
the individual but society at large, through its weakening 
and degenerating influences on our people, and especially 
on the younger generation, it is the duty of the govern- 
ment, legally to exclude mercury from medical practice. ' ' 

Thus wrote Dr. Hermann, a graduate of the great med- 
ical schools in Vienna, but the work of mercurial poison- 
ing goes merrily on until the insane asylums and homes 
for incurables can no longer take care of the harvest. 

Poisonous drugs destroy brain and nerve matter and 
alcohol is made the scapegoat. Look closer, gentlemen, 
and you will find that in many cases alcoholism is an 
effect rather than a cause. 

The diagnosis from the eye fully confirms our estimate 
of the true nature of the different stages of syphilis. 



MERCUEY, HYDRARGYRUM OR QUICKSILVER 149 

If syphilis in itself were a chronic constitutional disease, 
like scrofula or psora, it would exhibit its presence in 
the body by a special sign, but it appears in the iris only 
under the common signs of acute and chronic catarrhal 
conditions. 

On the other hand, cases diagnosed and treated by the 
regular profession as secondary or tertiary syphilis ex- 
hibit the signs of mercury, iodin, potassium and arsenic 
(salvarsan). 

A few years ago salvarsan was heralded as a positive 
cure for syphilis. Now, already (1918), medical authori- 
ties admit that the poison is not coming up to expectations, 
for everywhere they now combine the ancient mercurial 
and potassium iodid treatment with the salvarsan. The 
principal difference between salvarsan and mercury is 
that the former is more quickly destructive. Neither is 
curative. 

A Typical Case 

A few years ago a man about forty years of age came 
to us in a pitiable condition afflicted with locomotor ataxia. 
Every doctor he had consulted was positive that he was 
suffering from tertiary syphilis. The Wasserman and 
Noguchi tests always proved "positive". Still the pa- 
tient, as well as his mother and wife, denied strenuously 
that he was ever infected with venereal disease. The 
doctors of course were convinced that it was another case 
of "syphilitic liar". (Color plate, fig. f, p. 116.) 

On examination I found in the iris well defined signs of 
mercury and I tried to find where and in what form Mr. 
K. had absorbed the poison. The mother admitted that 
she had been in the habit of giving calomel to her children, 
but I could hardly believe that this alone accounted for 
his terrible condition. Several months after I had made 



150 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

my first examination the wife of the patient came to me 
and said: ' 

"Doctor, we know now where my husband got the mer- 
cury. When he was fourteen years of age his mother put 
him to work in the Pullman car shops. He was given 
employment in the mirror department and there he sil- 
vered mirrors for two years/ '■ , 

The "silver" on mirrors consists largely of quicksilver. 
The lad undoubtedly absorbed the mercury through the 
skin and through inhalation. The poison began to show 
its destructive effects when he was about twenty five years 
of age. At forty he was in the advanced stages of loco- 
motor ataxia. 

This case, like many others, also proves that the Wasser- 
man and Noguchi tests show " positive" in mercurial and 
other forms of mineral poisoning as well as in syphilis. 
Many patients are thus wrongly accused of being syphi- 
litics because the doctors do not know how to differentiate 
between venereal diseases and drug poisoning. Such un- 
just accusations have frequently caused great humiliation, 
domestic troubles and divorce proceedings. The unfortu- 
nate victim of medical malpractice is thus robbed not 
only of his health but also of his moral reputation. 

The Treatment of Mercurialism 

Mercurialism is easily curable while the poison is still 
diffuse in the system, but its elimination becomes more 
difficult when it has concentrated in the brain and spinal 
cord as indicated by the corresponding sign in the iris. 
(Color plate, figs, e and f, p. 116.) But many such cases 
well advanced in locomotor ataxia and paralysis agitans 
have yielded to our natural treatment. One such patient 
had had locomotor ataxia fully developed for six years. 
When he came to us he had to take, according to his own 
statement, a few dozen doses a day of some powerful nar- 



MERCURY, HYDRARGYRUM OR QUICKSILVER 151 

cotie in order to subdue the "lightning" and " girdle" 
pains. After five months' treatment the pains had disap- 
peared and he felt well enough to quit treatment. 

One of my first patients, Mr. S., was also a case of loco- 
motor ataxia, fully developed for seven years. He was 
past the painful and in the paralytic stage. He could 
walk only with the aid of a crutch and a stick. The 
sphincters of the bladder and anus were partially para- 
lyzed so that at times he could not control the movements 
of the bowels and of the bladder. After seven months' 
treatment he was able to work at the bench in a violin 
factory, and after eighteen months he worked as carpen- 
ter in the Pullman car shops. When I met him a few years 
afterward he told me that he continued to work during 
hot summer weather when most of the employees laid off 
on account of the unbearable heat. Such cases of course 
require thorough systematic natural treatment by all 
methods at our disposal. The curability of such a case 
frequently can be determined only by giving these methods 
a fair trial. 

Deception Taught in Medical Schools 

In medical schools students are warned not to use the 
word "calomel" in their prescriptions, "because people 
are afraid of it". They are instructed to write instead 
"hydrargyrum", which is the Greek word for mercury. 

When the mother pleads, "Doctor, I do not want you 
to give calomel to baby," she is shown that calomel does 
not appear on the prescription ; she does not suspect that 
"hydrargyrum" — Hg— is the same thing. 

Why this deception? Because people look for instan- 
taneous results. The doctor who cannot produce them 
loses his bread and butter. Homeopathy and other nat- 
ural methods of treatment are not popular because they 
are regarded as "too slow". "Something must be done 



152 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

at once." The one who can most quickly move the liver 
and the bowels, run down the fever, suppress skin erup- 
tions, ulcers and catarrhal discharges is the best doctor. 
In their anxiety for the loved one people will insist on 
" quick results". 

Sometimes when sorely pressed in acute crises, even 
those who thoroughly understand the teachings of Natural 
Therapeutics succumb to fear and resort once more to 
drugs in order to produce temporary relief. 

"I know you are right, Doctor. I do not doubt in the 
least the teachings of Natural Therapeutics, but I cannot 
endure to look any longer on this suffering. We will use 
the drugs just once more, and then stick to natural meth- 
ods all the closer in order to eliminate the after effects. ' ' 

It is the old story — "I will sin just once more, and then 
I will be good." 

But the "once more" is frequently once too often. 
When Nature, under the influence of natural living and 
treatment has worked up to a healing crisis, suppression 
is dangerous and often fatal. 

The climax of a healing crisis marks Nature's supreme 
effort to overcome a diseased condition, and if at this 
critical moment she is thwarted again, the healing forces 
of the system are not strong enough to overcome the new 
suppression, and a relapse into chronic disease or death 
itself are the usual results. 

It is the anxiety for immediate relief which keeps alive 
the drug curse and which has turned true homeopathy 
into "mongrelism". 

I once attended a clinic presided over by a homeopathic 
physician. One of the subjects was a young man suffer- 
ing from a venereal disease. After the diagnosis and 
usual discussion of the case one of the students was or- 
dered by the professor to give the man a thorough mer- 
curial inunction. 



MERCURY, HYDRARGYRUM OR QUICK^LVER 153 

I asked the doctor: "Is this homeopathic treatment V ' 

Smilingly he replied: "I suppose not; but these people 

want quick results. If we do not produce them they will 

go to the man on the next corner. " This is also the excuse 

of the saloon keeper for remaining in his line of business. 

Information from Allopathic Sources 

The following description of mercury, as well as those 
of all other drugs in this compilation, their uses and their 
chronic effects upon the system, were compiled by our 
Dr. Jean du Plessis from the latest standard works on 
materia medica in the John Crerear Library. These data 
from allopathic sources prove that the destructive effects 
of these so called medicines are well known to the medical 
profession. 

Mercury 
Allopathic Uses: 

1. Caustic against luetic lesions and small skin growths. 

2. Antiseptic dressing for wounds and ulcers. 

3. Ringworm and other parasitic skin diseases. 

4. Lues and chronic internal inflammations. 

5. Alterative or intercurrent remedy. 

6. Popular purgative in the form of calomel. 

Accidental Poisoning: 

1. Workmen handling mercury in mines, in the manu- 
facture of thermometers, mirrors, etc. 

2. Blue ointment. Grey salve. 

3. Blue pills and other patent remedies for costiveness. 

4. Amalgam tooth fillings. 

Toxicology: 

Circulates as oxyalbuminate of mercury, impoverishing 
both plasma and corpuscles. 



154 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

Soon leaves blood stream to enter tissues, where it may 
remain indefinitely. 

Symptoms of Hydrargyrism or Chronic Mercurial Poison- 
ing: 

1. Salivation. Swelling and tenderness of gums. 

2. Loose teeth — extraction followed by ulceration of 
sockets. 

3. Mercurial teeth of Hutchinson found in children 
suffering from congenital syphilis, or according to Natural 
Therapeutics, from congenital mercurialism. 

4. Dyspepsia. Diarrhea alternating with stubborn con- 
stipation — stools contain sulphid of mercury. 

5. Mercurial eczema. 

6. Ulcerations of mucous membranes and skin. 

7. Softening of the bones, and pains in same. 

8. Peripheral neuritis — girdle pains radiating down 
limbs. 

9. Anesthetic patches. 

10. Descending tremor progressing from intermittent 
with excitement and exertion, to continuous during wak- 
ing hours only. 

11. Impaired reflexes followed by various forms of 
paralysis such as locomotor ataxia, paralysis agitans or 
paresis. 

Elimination of Drug in Healing Crises: 

Takes place through skin eruptions, furuncles, ulcers, 
abscesses, various forms of feverish and catarrhal proc- 
esses, open sores and hemorrhoidal discharges. 

Ordinary symptoms of " salivation* ' and metallic taste 
in mouth are frequent symptoms. 

Dizziness, nervous and mental disturbances are of com- 
mon occurrence. 



MERCURY, HYDRARGYRUM OR QUICKSILVER 155 

Signs in Iris: 

While in the circulation it shows especially in the upper 
half of the iris as a whitish film. This, after five years or 
more, begins to condense into a greenish crescent of me- 
tallic lustre in the blue eye (Color plate, c) and of bluish 
color in the brown eye (Color plate, f). This greenish or 
bluish crescent in serious cases may extend all around the 
outer margin of the iris. The scurf rim becomes broader 
and darker in color. 

How Dentists Contract Mercurial Poisoning 

A few days previous to penning these lines I examined 
the eyes of a patient which revealed the typical ' ' mercurial 
iris" covered all over with a heavy whitish " felt-like ' ' 
film. The outer margin of the iris was bordered by a 
heavy, black scurf rim. The scurf rim in turn was sur- 
rounded by the transparent bluish, greenish mercurial ring 
which encroaches upon the white (sclera) of the eyeball. 
The brain region showed the fine white crescent of de- 
struction of brain matter, indicating paresis. 

The patient denied having taken mercury in any form. 
After much quizzing he finally admitted that as a dentist 
he had for twenty-five years mixed the amalgam for tooth 
fillings in his bare hands. He is in advanced stages of 
paresis. This morning he tried to kill his wife. 



CHAPTER XIII 

CINCHONA— QUININ 

(Color plate, Fig. c, Page 116) 

Cinchona or Peruvian bark was introduced into Europe 
as a medicinal remedy about the year 1820. Its best 
known alkaloid is quinin. 

Probably no drug has been more popular, both with 
the medical profession and the laity, than quinin. In 
many sections of the country especially those affected by 
catarrhal diseases or malarial fevers, the drug is taken as 
freely and regularly as an ordinary condiment. People 
are surprised when told that it is a powerful poison, and 
that when taken continuously, even in small doses, it will 
produce a variety of serious chronic ailments, such as 
indigestion, constipation, rheumatism and neuralgia, deaf- 
ness, color blindness and total blindness, irritability, neu- 
rasthenia and insanity. 

In consultation with the doctor, patients are told that 
the drug is harmless, while the lecturer in classroom, and 
materia medica, describe in detail the cumulative effects 
of this and other poisonous agents. They picture with 
terrible realism the symptoms of chronic mercurialism, 
iodism, bromism, cinchonism, the cocaine, chloral and 
morphin habits, and then continue prescribing these drugs 
as though they were as innocent as bonbons. 

The diagnosis from the iris brings proof positive of 
the cumulative and destructive effects of these agents. I 
have previously called attention to the fact that every 
substance poisonous to the human organism, if taken re- 
peatedly or in sufficient quantity, manifests in the iris by 

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CINCHONA— QUININ 157 

peculiar signs and colors easily recognized by the trained 
eye. These signs and colors diminish and disappear when 
the corresponding poisons are eliminated from the system, 
accompanied by their own peculiar crisis manifestations. 
This is proof positive that these poisonous drugs are not 
eliminated as quickly and thoroughly as the allopathic 
physician tries to make himself believe. 

Next to iodin, the presence of quinin in the body is more 
readily recognized in the iris than that of any other poison- 
ous substance. It shows as a yellowish discoloration, 
sometimes whitish and sometimes approaching in hue a 
reddish brown, according to the chemical combinations it 
has entered into. It shows particularly and most promi- 
nently in the brain, eyes, ears, stomach and bowels, indi- 
cating that it has a strong affinity for these parts and 
organs. In old malarial cases it also shows in the areas 
of liver and spleen. (Color plate, fig. c, page 116.) 

When we see the signs of the drug in the iris of a patient 
we need only take any materia medica and read the typ- 
ical symptoms of cinchonism or chronic quinin poisoning 
and the patient will confess to most of them. Let us take, 
for instance, "The Materia Medica and Therapeutics", 
by J. Mitchell Bruce, published by W. T. Keener and Co., 
Chicago. 

On page 315 he says : 

"The obvious phenomena produced by a full dose (15 to 30 gr.) 
of quinin are not by any means its most important effects. It acts 
most strikingly upon the nervous centers, and causes confusion of 
the mental faculties, noises in the ears and deafness, disorders of 
vision (color blindness), headache, giddiness, vomiting, and pos- 
sibly prostration from involvement of the cord and circula- 
tion. . . ." 

Page 316: 

"Quinin appears to reduce the amount of nitrogenous excre- 
tions, of urea and uric acid, and probably also of carbonic acid, as 
determined both in healthy and fevered animals, and in man. 



158 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

"These two sets of effects, taken together, point to a powerful 
action of quinin in reducing the metabolism of the body, of whieh 
heat and excretions are the two most measurable products. . „ . 
(Author's note: This confirms my claim that all antipyretics and 
antiseptics are protoplasmic poisons.) . . . We may, therefore, 
conclude that the effect of quinin in the body is to check metabolism 
by interfering with the oxidation of protoplasm generally, with 
oxygenation, and with the associated actions of ferments. Thus 
the fall of temperature produced by quinin is due to the diminished 
production of heat in the body, not to increased loss of heat. ' ' 

Fever heat contracts the surface capillaries, tightly 
closes the skin and its organs, and thus prevents heat radi- 
ation. Therefore we have in fevers a dry, hot surface. 
The drug, by "reducing the metabolism", which means 
paralysis of the vital functions, suppresses the heat that 
is burning up the morbid matter in the system. The cold 
wet packs and cold ablutions do not interfere with inner 
heat production. They cool and relax the skin, its pores 
and capillaries, thereby facilitating heat radiation and the 
elimination of impurities from the blood. The following 
quotations from "Essentials of Materia Medica and Thera- 
peutics", by H. Norris, M. D. (Allopath), are very sig- 
nificant, revealing in every paragraph the law of double 
effect* in the immediate and remote effects of quinin on 
the human organism. It must be remembered that all 
drugs taken in small doses accumulate in the system and 
concentrate in certain parts for which they exhibit a spe- 
cial affinity and then constantly exert the influence of 
large doses. 

The notes in parenthesis in the following paragraphs 
are by myself. 

"Locally, cinchona and its alkaloids are irritant and antiseptic, 
destroying minute organisms or inhibiting their movements. 

"Internally it acts on the alimentary canal as a simple bitter, 
in small doses increasing the appetite and digestion; if long con- 
tinued, producing indigestion and gastric catarrh. (Note double 

*See Vol. I, Chapter VII, Laws of Cure — Law of double effect. 



CINCHONA— QUININ 159 

effect. In ordinary doses cinchona constipates. In large doses 
cinchona or its alkaloids irritate the mucous membrane and cause 
vomiting and diarrhea followed by chronic constipation.) 

"Nutrition is stimulated and the excretion of waste products 
increased by small doses; large doses, however, diminish the amount 
of urea and uric and phosphoric acids in the urine. In malarial 
fever the products of waste tissue are much decreased. (Thus in- 
terfering with elimination.) 

"In the blood it interferes with the oxygen-carrying function of 
the red corpuscles, and diminishes their number, inhibits the move- 
ments and prevents the migration of the white corpuscles, both in 
health and disease. (If the allopath believes in the theory of 
phagocytosis, why prevent the migration of the leukocytes?) 

"Circulation: in small doses the cardiac action is increased; 
large doses, by acting on the cardiac motor ganglia, depress the 
heart, sometimes causing it to intermit, and finally arrest it in 
diastole; the blood pressure is lowered. (This means death.) 

"The temperature in health is very slightly influenced, if at all; 
in fevers a rapid decline takes place, due to the depressive action 
on the blood and circulation. 

"Nervous system: small doses stimulate the cerebral functions, 
large doses cause cinchonism, i. e., a constricted feeling in the fore- 
head, giddiness and tinnitus aurium (ringing in the ears), with 
impairment of hearing and sometimes of vision: after toxic doses 
these symptoms are aggravated and delirium, weak pulse, coma, 
sometimes convulsions, and in rare cases death, supervene. It prob- 
ably reduces the reflex excitability of the spinal cord. 

"Cutaneous eruptions, as erythema, urticaria or herpes, are pro- 
duced in some subjects by even small doses of cinchona or its 
alkaloids." (These eruptions appear when the drug is eliminated 
under natural methods, in healing crises.) 

From these various quotations it plainly appears that 
quinin is an antiseptic, germ killer and anti-fever remedy 
because it is a protoplasmic poison ; it benumbs, paralyzes 
and kills the red corpuscles, depresses the heart and the 
respiratory centers, and in brief, reduces the fever symp- 
toms because it retards all the vital functions. It "cures" 
catarrh because it acts as an astringent on the mucous 
membranes — that is, it contracts and paralyzes the cells 



160 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

and glandular structures of these membranes so that they 
cannot throw off the morbid matter which Nature is try- 
ing to eliminate. 

Medical students in our colleges are constantly warned 
not to give quinin in large or continued doses to railroad 
men, because it may cause color blindness and deafness. 
They are told this might cause a misunderstanding of 
color signals and thereby produce railroad accidents. 
Whether or not other people become color blind and deaf 
does not seem to be a matter of importance to the medical 
practitioner. 

Not long ago there appeared before our public clinic 
a woman about forty years of age who asked for a diag- 
nosis from the eye. Both eyes were yellow with the typ- 
ical quinin color (see color plate, fig. c, p. 116) and 
the regions of throat, lungs and bronchi displayed the 
dark signs of chronic and destructive catarrhal condi- 
tions. 

We told her at once, without a word of information 
from her, that she was thoroughly poisoned by quinin and 
that in consequence she was suffering with bad chronic 
catarrhal conditions, bordering on tuberculosis. 

"Yes," she said, "I have been coughing and expectorat- 
ing for a year and the doctors tell me that I have con- 
sumption. Two years ago I was a perfectly well woman 
and strong as a man. My husband died with consump- 
tion and I, after reading some medical books, began to 
fear that he had infected me with the disease. The books 
told me that quinin was a good preventive against 
catarrhs, coughs and tuberculosis. Although there was 
nothing the matter with me at the time, I took large doses 
of it without a doctor's prescription, and kept on taking 
it until one day I dropped, senseless, on the floor. A doc- 
tor was called and after hearing my story told me I had 
taken too much quininj that I was suffering from the 



CINCHONA— QUININ 161 

chronic after effects of the drug. I then began to cough 
and have grown worse ever since." 

In this case, without doubt, the drug which was taken 
to prevent the disease produced it in its most terrible 
reality. 

The perfection of the microscope and the discovery of 
microorganisms of disease gave a new and great impetus 
to allopathic science. In the germ theory of disease 
was found the solution of all therapeutic riddles, proof 
positive of the fallacy of the teachings of Hahnemann 
and a perfect justification of allopathic symptomatic and 
surgical treatment of disease. One of the favorite bits of 
evidence always produced in favor of these theories is 
the specific action of quinin in malarial diseases. "The 
Plasmodium Malariae is found in the blood of malaria 
patients, quinin kills the Plasmodium and the fever symp- 
toms abate (temporarily) ; therefore is the Plasmodium the 
cause of the malaria and quinin the cure for it. ' ' 

In like manner, other specific germs are supposed to be 
the causes of the diseases after which they are named; 
hence the formula, "Find chemicals or serums to kill the 
bacteria, and cure the disease." 

Let us see if this reasoning is true in the case of malaria 
and quinin. The allopathic theory is supported by the 
fact that almost all Northerners who go to certain hot 
and moist lowland districts in tropical countries are 
affected by this and other tropical fevers. This seems to 
be sufficient proof that the cause of the disease lies en- 
tirely in certain parasitic germs, peculiar to these dis- 
tricts, and in the presence of mosquitoes which convey 
these germs into human blood. 

The diagnosis from the eye, as repeatedly stated, 
reveals the fact that the majority of human beings are 
more or less affected and encumbered with inherited and 
acquired disease taints and morbid matter. These chronic 



162 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

encumbrances are more pronounced in the inhabitants of 
colder zones, because the colder temperature retards 
acute elimination and because the greater consumption 
of meat, pork, coffee, tea and liquors, and the almost 
entire absence of eliminating fruits from the daily dietary, 
favor the accumulation of waste and morbid matter, which 
forms a luxuriant soil for all sorts of disease germs. 

When such persons arrive in the hot, moist, malarial 
lowlands of tropical climates, the malarial parasites and 
other disease germs find congenial soil in the morbid 
matter of their systems and produce the peculiar ferment- 
ative processes of yellow fever, cholera, malaria, etc. 

That these germs grow and thrive in morbid blood only, 
has been proved by hundreds of European vegetarians 
who have emigrated to tropical countries. They live in 
localities known as the worst fever districts in the world, 
in perfect immunity from tropical disorders, while their 
meat-eating, liquor-and-coffee-drinking, tobacco-smoking 
and quinin-eating countrymen fall an easy prey to all 
tropical diseases and usually within a few years return 
to Europe ruined in health physically and mentally. 

Viewpoint of Natural Therapeutics Verified by an 
Allopathic Teacher 

When I was a student in medical college Dr. C. was 
one of our professors on Materia Medica. He was an old, 
experienced physician and in theory and practice a thor- 
ough allopath, but he never employed quinin in the treat- 
ment of malaria. 

How he learned to prevent and to cure this disease 
without drugs was one of his favorite stories. "In my 
younger days," he said, "before I took up the study of 
medicine, I traveled with a government exploring expedi- 
tion through some of the worst malarial districts of Old 
Mexico and South America. One day I befriended a na- 



CINCHONA— QUININ 163 

tive and in return for some kindness I had shown him, he 
taught me how to avoid the malaria and other tropical 
fevers. He told me to keep my bowels open by avoiding 
meat and by eating plenty of fruit, and to guard against 
chilling at night by keeping myself well covered with 
woolen blankets. I followed his advice, ate plenty of 
fruit, kept myself well covered, so that all through the 
night my body was in a state of semi-perspiration, and 
I never contracted the fever or took a single dose of quinin. 
My companions would lie naked in the heated part of the 
tropical night, fall asleep and expose their bodies to the 
early morning chills. This suppressed the excretions of 
the skin and brought on the ague." 

His experience certainly proved that the malaria para- 
sites grow in morbid blood only. As long as he kept skin 
and bowels active, the germs found nothing to feed on. 
He always added that since he began the practice of medi- 
cine, many of his patients had prevented and cured ma- 
laria by following the same simple directions. 

After telling his story, however, the same good doctor 
would turn around and give a baby, two years old, a dose 
of quinin for a simple cold. 

A medical student who heard me repeat this story tried 
to explain the doctor's experience as follows: "The par- 
ticular kind of mosquito which carries the malaria germ 
is active only during the night. Keeping the body cov- 
ered while asleep prevented infection." This argument 
does not hold good, because the little pests are awake and 
busy during the evening hours and in the early morning 
as well as during the night. 

Neurasthenia Caused by Quinin 

Some years ago I happened to attend a clinic in a neigh- 
boring college. One of the patients was a young man 
about thirty years of age, a cigar maker by trade. Exam- 



164 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

ination brought out an imposing array of nervous symp- 
toms. The unanimous verdict of the assembled doctors 
and students was "neurasthenia". The professor in 
charge of the clinic asked for a definition of "neuras- 
thenia". 

Having listened to a long recital of nervous and mental 

symptoms he said, "In my last paper before the 

County Medical Association I described this mysterious 
modern nervous derangement as follows: 

"A patient suffers from a multitude of nervous symp- 
toms: headaches, backaches, neuro-muscular weakness, 
the feeling of weight on the brain, mental irritability, 
ringing in the ears, insomnia, etc. You cannot find any 
local or constitutional diseases to account for the nervous 
symptoms ; in fact you do not know what ails the patient — 
that is neurasthenia." 

In the meantime I, myself, examined the eyes of our 
subject and the professor asked me for my diagnosis of 
the case. I gave it as my opinion that the man was suf- 
fering from chronic cinchonism, or quinin poisoning. 
Asked what made me think so, I replied that the iris 
showed very prominently the yellow color of quinin in the 
regions of stomach, intestines, liver and spleen. The two 
last named organs also showed signs of inflammation and 
enlargement, which usually go with chronic quinin poison- 
ing. To corroborate the diagnosis I asked the patient if 
he had suffered from malaria. ' 1 Oh, yes, ' ' he answered, ' * I 
lived in the South and suffered with malaria for four 
years, and had to come north on account of it." 

"Did you take much quinin?" 

"Yes, almost daily, for four years." 

I then asked him for other symptoms of chronic cin- 
chonism as given in standard materia medica ; he admitted 
that he suffered from practically all of them. Having 
finished my examination, I remarked to the professor that 



CINCHONA— QUININ 165 

the history of the patient, as well as his symptoms, seemed 
to justify my diagnosis. 

The professor dismissed the subject with the curt reply: 
"That was orthodox treatment; it has nothing to do with 
our diagnosis. " 

It may seem harsh to "tell tales out of school", but this 
happened in open clinic, within the hearing of the patient. 
What about the hundreds and thousands of other patients 
who must suffer all their lives on account of that sort of 
diagnosis and treatment ? 

Paresis Caused by Quinin 

Three years ago a lady brought her husband to us for 
examination. His mind was in a weakened condition so 
that he could not act for himself. The best physicians in 
her home city in Wisconsin, and two of the great nerve 
specialists in Chicago had examined the patient and told 
her that his mental breakdown was caused by overwork. 
The Chicago " specialists " had charged her fifty dollars 
apiece for looking at him and making this profound diag- 
nosis. Nowadays ' ' the strenuous life ' ' is made the scape- 
goat for a good many troubles that are beyond the ken 
of the "expert" and "specialist". 

On examining the iris I found the yellow color of quinin 
in the areas of brain, liver and spleen ; also to some extent 
in the stomach and bowels, indicating heavy quinin poison- 
ing. When I informed the lady that her husband was 
suffering from chronic quinin poisoning, she answered, 
"This may be possible, because during the last few years 
he has taken quinin almost daily to cure his hay fever. 
A doctor gave him a quinin prescription for this purpose 
and after that he kept on taking it of his own accord." 
This left no doubt about the correctness of the records 
in the iris. 

The case proved to be beyond redemption. Before 



166 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

death liberated him from his earthly suffering he had to 
pass for a year through the revolting conditions which 
characterize the gradual breaking down of the brain tis- 
sues, labeled " paresis' ' by the medical profession. This 
man came from an exceptionally healthy family. He 
himself had never been sick in his life until he began 
to suffer from hay fever. His habits of living had been 
very temperate and he was known as one of the best all- 
round college athletes in his state. Surely the work of a 
cashier in a small town bank was not sufficient to cause 
physical and mental breakdown in a man of that type. 

Quinin 
Allopathic Uses:* 

1. Appetizer and bitter tonic during convalescence, gen- 
eral debility, and while taking depressing remedies like 
mercury, lead, etc. 

2. Against all febrile diseases, especially malaria and 
all conditions resulting from same. "Of unquestionable 
value if freely administered." 

3. Against splenic leukemia. 

4. Local anesthetic, injected with urea hydrochlorid 
for minor surgical operations — used instead of cocain. 

5. Rectal injection against amoebic dysentery. 

6. Against painful nervous conditions. "Shows well 
marked effects, acting as cardiac and central nervous de- 
pressant.' ' 

7. Menstrual stimulant and abortive. 

Accidental Poisoning: 

Malarial preventatives. 
Patent tonics. Hair tonics. 



* Europe annually imports 500,000 lbs. of Cinchona bark. 



CINCHONA— QUININ 167 

Toxicology: 

"Converted in the stomach into quinin hydrochlorid, a 
readily diffusible salt which enters the blood stream within 
a few minutes after ingestion. Decreases functional ac- 
tivity of all forms of protoplasm. Reduces number of 
leukocytes. (Hence its suppressive action on inflamma- 
tory processes.) Binds oxygen more firmly to hemoglobin 
thus interfering with proper oxygenation and decreasing 
the nitrogenous output." 

Clearly therefore, quinin reduces temperature by sup- 
pressing the production and not by facilitating the libera- 
tion of heat. 

The most important symptoms of Cinchonism (chronic 
quinin poisoning) are the following: 

1. Congested frontal headaches. 

2. Sensation of fullness or pressure at top of head. 

3. Ringing in ears. 

4. Disturbances of vision (dilatation of pupils with im- 
perfect response to accommodative effect). Color-blind- 
ness. 

5. Gastro-intestinal and renal irritation oft accompanied 
by hemoglobinuria. 

6. Itchy skin eruptions. 

7. Restless, unfreshing sleep, dizziness, drowsiness and 
debility. 

8. Nervousness, neurasthenia and insanity. 

Note the similarity between cinchonism and neuras- 
thenia. 

Elimination of Drug in Healing Crises : 

1. Through the skin causing itchy eruptions resembling 
scarlatina or measles. 

2. Through the kidneys as amorphous alkaloid which 
irritates urinary passages, often causing hematuria. 



168 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

Elimination of drug in healing crises is frequently accom- 
panied by taste of the drug in the mouth. 

3. Through acute catarrhal elimination, purging and 
hemorrhoidal discharges. 

Signs in Iris: 

The drug shows most prominently in the brain region 
in yellow pigments ranging from whitish to reddish tints ; 
variation probably due to chemical admixtures. In severe 
poisoning the yellowish discolorations show also in stom- 
ach, intestines, liver and spleen, in the latter organs espe- 
cially in cases of chronic malaria. (Color plate, fig. c, page 
116.) 



CHAPTER XIV 

IODIN 

(Color plate, Figs, b and c, Page 116) 

The most prominent alterative next to mercury is iodin. 
Judging from the records in the iris, it must be one of the 
most popular drugs used by the regular school of medi- 
cine, for we find the iodin spots in the eyes of about one- 
fourth of all the subjects we examine. No other poison- 
ous drug shows more plainly in the iris, but the signs differ 
according to the mode of absorption. If taken in- 
ternally, the poison shows in the iris as bright red, reddish 
brown, pink or orange colored spots or blotches. (Color 
plate, b and c, p. 116.) 

These spots are frequently transparent so that the un- 
derlying tissues of the iris can be discovered. Sometimes 
they are surrounded by white borders indicating that the 
poison is causing irritation and inflammation or that it 
is in process of elimination in a healing crisis. 

Where the iodin has been applied externally and has 
been absorbed through the skin, the signs in the iris are of 
a pinkish hue and appear in the form of streaks, broom- 
like markings or reddish cloud's. It is understood that 
these signs are visible in the areas of the iris corresponding 
to those parts of the body in which the poison has accumu- 
lated. 

The signs of iodin which has been taken internally are 
often similar to itch spots, still with a little practice they 
can be distinguished readily enough. 

The iodin spots are usually of a brighter red and more 

169 



170 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

diffuse than the itch or psora spots. Sometimes the his- 
tory of the patient also helps to clear up the doubt. 

While other drugs exhibit a well denned affinity for 
certain portions of the body, we find iodin spots almost 
everywhere, frequently in the areas of liver, kidneys, 
stomach and bowels, lungs, pancreas and the brain. 

Iodin as Described in Allopathic Materia Medica 

Iodin (lodum) is a solid non-metallic element. It is 
obtained from native iodids and iodads and from the ashes 
of sea weeds. Its principal preparations are potassium 
iodid, sodium iodid, the tincture of iodin, iodin liniment 
and iodin ointment. Its actions and uses are thus de- 
scribed in " Materia Medica and Therapeutics", by J. 
Mitchel Bruce, used as a text-book in leading allopathic 
medical colleges in England ^nd America: 

"Externally applied, iodin is a powerful irritant and vesicant, 
decomposing organic molecules,, and entering into loose chemical 
co bination with the albuminous constituents of the parts. At 
the same time it stains the epidermis a deep brown; eauses consid- 
erable pain; and is absorbed into the blood, partly by the skin 
and partly by the air of respiration in the form of vapor. It is 
also a very powerful antiseptic and disinfectant. ' ' 

This description of the action of the iodin again confirms 
our claim that all antiseptics, antipyretics, germicides and 
antitoxins are powerful protoplasmic poisons and that 
their medicinal action depends upon their life destroying 
qualities. 

"The tincture, strong solution, and ointment of iodin are exten- 
sively used as stimulants and disinfectants to foul callous ulcers, 
much like silver nitrate; as vegetable parasiticides in ringworm; 
and as counter irritants in subacute or chronic inflammation of 
joints, periosteum, lymphatic glands, the pleura and the lungs, for 
which purpose the ointments of lead iodid and of mercuric iodid 
are also applied. In these instances the chief effect is doubtless 
stimulation. . . ." 



IODIN 171 

Iodin acts as a counter irritant and stimulant because 
it is a protoplasmic poison. All poisons have a stimulating 
and irritating effect on the tissues of the body, because the 
organism as a whole, its organs, cells and living molecules, 
and the vital forces animating them, are aroused to in- 
tense activity by the effort to repel the hostile invader. 
Temporary benefit from irritation or stimulation is coun- 
terbalanced by the inevitable reaction and "the decompo- 
sition of organic molecules". 

"But a certain amount of the iodin is absorbed, and acts specific- 
ally as will be presently described. Iodin in solution is injected 
into cysts, goiters, hydroceles, etc., with much success. . . ." 

The specific action of iodin referred to, consists in the 
"drying up" of glandular structures. This may destroy 
them as effectually as extirpation with the surgeon's knife. 
I fail to understand how this can be called "a cure". 
Later, I shall give some instances of the chronic after 
effects of such "absorbent" treatment. 

' ' Compounds of iodin with creosote and various soothing volatile 
substances, such as chloroform and ether, are used as continuous 
inhalations in the so called ' antiseptic ' treatment of phthisis, 
bronchitis and other forms of chronic pulmonary disease.* ' 

It is hard to tell whether these antiseptics will more 
quickly and effectually destroy the lung tissues or the 
disease germs. (See first quotation.) 

"In the stomach and bowels, although it is gradually converted 
into sodium iodid, the irritant effects of free iodin are continued, 
with abdominal pain, sickness and diarrhea as the result. . . . 
In the blood the element is at first found combined with sodium; 
but this salt appears to be decomposed and the iodin for a time 
set free, for some of the red corpuscles are broken down (if the 
amount of iodin is large), and bloody effusions and bloody urine 
make their appearance. Such results are to be carefully avoided 
in practice. . . ■" 

This, too, indicates the destructive effect of the drug. 



172 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

"Specific Actions and Uses" 

"The lymphatic glands are reduced in size by iodin, which is 
extensively used for scrofulous and other chronic enlargements of 
the glands, whether applied locally as iodin, or administered in- 
ternally as the iodids. ,, 

Explained above. 

"The excretion of iodin by the muoous membrane of the respira- 
tory tract is of most interest to the therapeutist. In certain sub- 
jects and probably when potassium iodid contains free iodin as 
an impurity, its exhibition produces a series of unpleasant symp- 
toms known as 'iodism', consisting of coryza, the watery discharge 
from the nose being sometimes profuse; sneezing; severe pain of 
a bursting character over the frontal sinuses, commonly called 
'headache'; swelling and redness of the gums, hard and soft palates 
and fauces; foulness of the tongue, and increase of the mucus of 
the mouth; cough and frothy expectoration and a sense of heat 
and rawnes3 in the trachea and chest. . . . 

"In escaping by the skin the liberated iodin produces in certain 
individuals peculiar eruptions; papular, acneiform, vascular or 
pustular, rarely purpuric. . . . Potassium iodid is said to be an 
antigalactagogue (milk suppressant). 

The symptoms just described frequently manifest dur- 
ing the elimination of the drug in healing crises. The 
worst effects, because deep seated and obscure, are not 
mentioned. Here I may briefly state that in many cases 
we have found iodin to give rise to Bright 's disease, dia- 
betes, paresis, ulcers of the stomach and bowels, chronic 
diseases of pancreas, spleen and lungs. Some specific cases 
I shall describe later on. 

Does Iodin Eliminate Mercury? 

"Certain poisons which have intimately associated themselves 
with the albuminous structures, are disengaged from these combi- 
nations by iodin. Lead and mercury may be swept out of the 
tissues with the assistance of potassium iodid, administered for 
plumbism and hydrargyrism respectively. 

1 ' The principal application, however, of iodin is in the treatment 



IODIN 173 

of syphilis. Either the virus of this disease is thus eliminated from 
the system, or iodin hastens the life and disappearance of the small- 
celled growth by which syphilis is characterized. It is especially 
valuable in the tertiary forms of syphilis, when mercury cannot 
always be given with advantage; and nodes and other superficial 
enlargements, gummata in the viscera, and certain forms of skin 
disease may be very successfully treated with the potassium salt. 
The same precautions must be observed with respect to the general 
health, and especially the preservation of digestion, in the case of 
iodin, as are laid down under the head of mercury (page 106). ' ' 

Various preparations of iodin are administered to coun- 
teract the effects of mercury, which are usually labeled 
tertiary syphilis. Old school materia medica assumes 
that iodin neutralizes and eliminates the mercury. When 
the latter has been taken to the point of saturation and 
exudes from the body through ulcers, abscesses, hemor- 
rhoids, etc., iodin arrests the acute activity aroused by 
the mercury and paralyzes Nature 's effort to throw it off. 
Both poisons recede into the organism and continue their 
work of destruction. That this is true is proved by the 
signs of the poisons in the iris and the accompanying 
symptoms in the organs affected. 

It is again Beelzebub against the devil. 

The so called tertiary syphilitic usually suffers as much 
from iodin poisoning as from mercury. It counteracts the 
mercurial sores and ulcerations because it is a protoplas- 
mic poison. It "dries up" and "absorbs" healthy tissues 
as well as diseased ones. 

Dr. A. Farrington says, in his "Clinical Materia Med- 
ica", page 477, of the destructive chronic after effects of 
iodin : 

"Iodin is an absorbent; it has the property of causing absorp- 
tion, particularly of glandular structures. Its absorbent properties 
extend to other tissues, involving, finally, even nervous structures. 
We find, for instance, in persons who are poisoned with iodin, great 
emaciation. With the female, the mammary glands become atro- 



174 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

phied and the ovaries, too, no doubt. With the male, the testicles 
suffer inevitable progressive loss of sexual power. The skin be- 
comes dark yellow and tawny, dry from deficient action, the sclero- 
tica (of the eyes) become yellow, yellow spots appear on the face 
and also on the body. There is excessive appetite; he is anxious 
and faint if he does not get his food. He is relieved while eating 
and yet he emaciates despite the amount of food he eats. Sooner 
or later the nervous system becomes involved and he is afflicted 
with tremor. He becomes nervous and excitable; every little an- 
noyance which would be unnoticed in his normal condition causes 
trembling. He has a longing for the open air, as if the cold, fresh 
air gave him more breath. This gives a fair idea of the condition 
to which the patient is reduced by the overuse of iodin". 

In the following I shall describe several eases of iodism 
explained by the diagnosis from the iris. 

A lady was sent to us by a physician for diagnosis. 
After looking into her eyes, I at once laid my hand on 
her right temple and said, * ' There is serious trouble here ; 
you must suffer from chronic headaches. " 

This she at once admitted, saying, "It is that which 
brought me here. No one has been able to detect the 
cause of the trouble. Since you have discovered the 
locality, can you also tell me the cause ?" 

" Certainly, ' ' I replied. "It is iodin, applied externally 
and absorbed through the skin. The left frontal brain 
area in the iris displays a large reddish streak. Do you 
remember when and for what the iodin was applied ?" 

After some effort she remembered that when she was 
about six years of age, her neck had been repeatedly 
painted with iodin for "swollen glands". On further in- 
quiry she admitted that soon afterwards the headaches 
had made their appearance and had never left her, as far 
as she knew, for a single waking hour. In order to ' ' cure ' ' 
the headache, she took quantities of bromids, coal tar prep- 
arations and other brain and nerve paralyzers which, of 
course, aggravated and complicated her chronic ailments. 



IODIN 175 

My Own Experience with Iodin 

Iodin was tlie cause of my undertaking the study and 
practice of Natural Therapeutics. About twenty years 
ago I was in very poor health. After giving up all hope 
of being cured by drugs, I went to Europe seeking relief 
in Nature Cure sanitariums. I was greatly surprised when 
one of the physicians in charge, after looking at my eyes, 
immediately told me the cause of all my troubles. He 
said, "Your right kidney and liver are ruined by iodin." 

I remembered that our family physician had swabbed 
my throat internally with iodin and painted it externally 
when I was a lad, twelve years old. But I never suspected 
that those long forgotten applications of this drug could 
have anything to do with the tendency to diabetes. In 
my case the elimination of these and other poisons took 
the form of furuncles. There were at one time over twenty 
on my body. I allowed them to run their course without 
being lanced or treated with antiseptics. This proved to 
be the great healing crisis in my case for, after that vigor- 
ous housecleaning, I felt like one new-born. I seemed to 
be in perfect health and since that time have not been 
sick in bed for one day. Most of the spots disappeared, but 
some are still faintly visible, as shown in Fig. 16, p. 123. 

A patient asked me if I could explain why she had an 
abundance of milk for her first baby, while she was unable 
to nurse any one of the three following. r I examined the 
iris and found in the region of the right chest and breast 
a broad yellowish-red streak of iodin. There were also 
closed lesions in the pleura and the lower lobe of the lung. 
I said to her, "After the birth of your first child and 
before the next was born, you had a severe attack of pneu- 
monia and pleurisy and your breast was painted with 
iodin". This she confirmed^ When her first child was six- 
teen months ola she contracted pneumonia and pleurisy 



176 IKIDIAGNOSIS 

and the entire right side was painted heavily with iodin. 

Undoubtedly, the drug had been absorbed and had dried 
up the mammary glands. This accounted for her inability 
to nurse the other children. 

In several cases I have traced sexual impotence to the 
action of iodin on the sex organs. 

Iodin 
Allopathic Uses:* 

1. Antiseptic dressing for wounds. 

2. Stimulant and disinfectant on foul ulcers. 

3. Injected into cysts, goiters, hydroceles, etc., "with 
much success''. 

4. Counter irritant in chronic inflammations of joints, 
periosteum, pleura, lungs and tubercular lymph nodes. 

5. Metabolic stimulant for disintegrating and elimi- 
nating drugs such as mercury, lead, etc., which have inti- 
mately combined with the albuminous constituents of the 
body. 

6. Stimulating expectorant in bronchial catarrh and 
pneumonia if consolidation threatens to persist. 

7. Antispasmodic in asthma and emphysema. 

8. Antigalactagogue. Dries up mammary glands. 

9. For aneurisms as K. I. (Potassium lowers blood 
pressure while iodin stimulates metabolism and coagulates 
the tissues.) 

10. Used chiefly against tertiary syphilis — either causes 
the elimination of the spirocheta or hastens the life and 
disappearance of the small-celled growth characterizing 
the disease. 

Accidental Poisoning: 

Workmen handling iodin. 
Patent "goiter cures". 



*The world annually produces 11,000 tons of iodin for medicinal 
purposes. Is it any wonder that we find it so frequently in the iris? 



IODIN 177 

Toxicology: 

Iodin is freely absorbed into the circulation where it 
resolves the red corpuscles. 

It rapidly passes to all tissues especially the excretory 
organs and lymph nodes. 

Symptoms of Iodism: 

1. Inflamed gums, palates and fauces. 

2. Coryza with bursting pain over frontal sinuses. 

3. Cough and frothy expectoration. 

4. Achneiform eruptions. 

5. Abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea. 

6. Glandular atrophy, especially testes, ovaries and 
mammae. 

7. Anemia, emaciation and general debility. 

Elimination of Drug in Healing Crises: 

Catarrhal discharges from nose, sneezing, severe pain 
over the frontal sinuses ; intense headaches ; swelling and 
redness of the gums, hard and soft palates; foulness of 
the tongue; increase of mucus in the mouth; cough and 
frothy expectorations; papular, acneiform, vascular or 
pustular eruptions; open sores, hemorrhoidal discharges 
and other symptoms according to location of the poison 
in the system. 

Signs in Iris: 

Have been described in introductory paragraph of this 
chapter. 



CHAPTER XV 

LEAD 

(Color plate, Fig. b, Page 116) 

The drug shows in the iris in the form of lead blue or 
bluish grey discoloration in the region of stomach and 
bowels. I have found the dark blue or bluish grey sign 
of lead many times in the eyes of painters, printers, 
plumbers and other workers in lead, suffering from lead 
poisoning or lead colic. The sign in the iris indicates 
that the drug has a strong affinity for the stomach, but it 
also affects the nerves in the upper region of the spinal 
cord, causing the symptoms of wrist-drop and shaking 
palsy or paralysis agitans. (Mercury shows a stronger 
affinity for the lower sections of the spinal cord, more 
frequently giving rise to the symptoms of locomotor 
ataxia.) One of the plainest diagnostic symptoms of lead 
poison is a blue line along the edge of the gums. 

I have met with many cases of lead poisoning caused 
through drug taking or accidental absorption of the metal. 

Several years ago a patient came to me for consulta- 
tion who suffered intensely from ulcers of the stomach. 
The eyes revealed plainly the sign of lead in the stomach 
area. I was unable to locate the source of the lead poi- 
soning until I learned from the patient that for several 
years he had been employed in a carriage factory and 
that his work consisted in scraping old varnish and paint 
from vehicles. In this way he had inhaled and swallowed 
large quantities of the metal contained in the paint scrap- 
ings. Under natural treatment he made a perfect 
recovery. 

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LEAD 179 

Another patient who had suffered for years with severe 
indigestion, neuralgia and "rheumatic pains' ' also showed 
plainly the lead sign in the region of the stomach. In this 
case it developed that the patient several years before 
had worked on the ore wharves in Cleveland, Ohio. He 
had been in the habit of drinking water from a spring 
which trickled out from under a large pile of metal bear- 
ing rocks. He became violently ill, and was taken to a 
hospital where the doctors diagnosed his case as metallic 
poisoning. While he recovered from the acute attack, he 
was never well afterward and was treated for several 
years for indigestion, muscular rheumatism and neuralgia. 
The eyes revealed the true nature of his acute and chronic 
ailments. He also made a perfect recovery under natural 
treatment. 

Lead and mercury produce the most stubborn forms of 
chronic constipation. The intestinal tract in the iris of 
such patients frequently has a black appearance. (Color 
plate, e and f, p. 116) Many such cases we have had to 
treat for six months or longer before the first white lines 
appeared in the black area of the stomach and intestines 
indicating the return of life into the paralyzed organs. 

Lead 
Allopathic Uses : 

1. Externally as astringent and sedative in bruises, 
itches, ulcers and inflamed surfaces in general. 

2. As injection against chronic inflammatory discharges 
from vagina, urethra, ear, etc. 

3. Sprains (lead water and opium). 

4. Hemostat for internal hemorrhage. 

5. Powerful ecbolic. (Producing abortion.) 

Accidental Poisoning: 

1. "Workmen handling lead, type, paint, tinfoil, etc. 

2. Lead water pipes. 



180 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

3. Action of acid preservers on solder in canned goods. 

4. Lead coated pottery. 

5. Candy and cake colors (chromate). 

6. Hair dyes (sulphid). 

7. Glassware. 

Toxicology: 

Enters through skin, respiratory and alimentary tracts. 
Circulates as albuminate of lead, reducing red corpuscles 
and salts. 
Is soon taken up by tissues and obstinately retained. 

Symptoms of Plumbism: 

1. Blue line along edge of gums. 

2. Malnutrition. 

3. Profound anemia. Icterus saturius. 

4. Lead colic. Stubborn constipation. 

5. Neuromuscular pain and rigidity often mistaken for 
rheumatism. 

6. Paralysis saturia (lead palsy, wrist-drop, ankle- 
drop). Symmetrical, starting as feebleness and stiffness. 
Paralysis agitans. 

7. Retinitis secondary to arteriosclerosis and intersti- 
tial nephritis. 

8. Vertigo and delirium in severe cases. 

Elimination of the Drug in Healing Crises: 

Severe gastritis, hemorrhages from stomach, hemor- 
rhoidal discharges; skin eruptions and ulcers (similar to 
mercury), sores in the mouth; bleeding of gumsj severe 
nervous symptoms. 

Signs in Iris: 

Have been described in introductory paragraph in this 
chapter. 



CHAPTER XVI 

ARSENIC 

(Color plate, Fig. b, Page 116) 

Several cases of accidental arsenical poisoning have al- 
ready been cited on page 130. Another similar case was 
that of a farmer who came to us suffering from great 
enlargement of the spleen and from pernicious leukemia. 
His eyes showed the signs of arsenic very plainly, but for 
several weeks we were unable to trace the source of the 
poisoning, until I mentioned paris green. He then told 
me that for many years he had sprayed his potato vines 
with a preparation containing large amounts of paris 
green. He remembered that frequently the wind had 
driven the spray into his face. This solved the mystery. 
He came too late, however, and succumbed to the effects 
of the arsenical poisoning. 

Several years ago it was discovered that arsenical poi- 
soning was frequently due to the inhalation of poisonous 
emanations from wall paper that owed its green color to 
paris green. Since then the use of paris green in the manu- 
facture of wall paper has been prohibited by law. If 
arsenical poisoning can occur by inhaling the poisonous 
emanations from wall paper, what about taking arsenic 
in large quantities in Fowler's solution, salvarsan and 
other medical preparations ? While the first effect of the 
drug seems to be tonic and stimulating, this is soon fol- 
lowed by greater weakness and collapse. 

A well known trick of dishonest horse dealers consists 
in giving to more or less decrepit horses large doses of 

181 



182 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

arsenic. This acts as a powerful stimulant on the animal. 
His coat becomes glossy, the eyes sparkle with the fire of 
youth and he prances about in high spirits. But the un- 
wary purchaser finds to his astonishment within a few 
days that the animal has lost its youthful vigor and fine 
appearance. 

The effect of the poison on human beings suffering from 
anemia is not one whit better. Whenever the drug is dis- 
continued, the anemic symptoms reappear in worse form 
than before. Many people contract a habit for the drug 
which is very difficult to overcome. 

Some of the worst cases of chronic multiple or peripheral 
neuritis that have come under my observation were caused 
by prolonged medication with arsenical preparations. 

The notorious salvarsan is a powerful preparation of 
arsenicum. The formula is C 12 H 12 2 N 2 As 2 . This con- 
coction has never cured a single case of blood poisoning. 
At the best it has only temporarily suppressed symptoms. 
Many patients have come under our care and treatment 
who were completely ruined by it. A year ago we had 
under our care two cases who were made blind by its use. 
One of these patients had enjoyed good eyesight until he 
received four salvarsan injections. After each treatment 
his eyesight became weaker. After the fourth he could 
only dimly distinguish objects. Too late it dawned upon 
him that salvarsan was destroying his eyesight. 

The other patient had a similar experience. Her eye- 
sight improved greatly under natural treatment. The 
man, a Bohemian saloon-keeper, had not the necessary 
intelligence to understand Nature Cure, and went back 
to poison treatment. I do not know what became of him, 
but I am certain that he has not regained his eyesight. 

Another case treated with salvarsan in one of the large 
Chicago hospitals, went insane. The doctors in charge of 
his case said it was paresis, due to syphilis in early life. 



ARSENIC 183 

They pronounced the case incurable and sent him to the 
State Asylum for the Insane at Elgin. Later his friends 
consulted me about the case and on my advice, had him 
paroled and brought to our institution for treatment. He 
improved rapidly, as the "606" was eliminated from his 
system, and three months after coming to us he failed to 
return from his daily walk. One of our attendants went 
to his house to see if he was there and found him working 
at his jeweler's bench. He has never had a relapse since. 

I could relate dozens of instances where the "606" 
worked similar havoc in different ways, but space does not 
permit. On the other hand I have never come across a 
single case of so called chronic blood poisoning that has 
been permanently cured by this concoction. It was sprung 
on humanity and immediately accepted by the medical 
profession and the laity in all civilized countries simply 
on account of the reputation of Dr. Ehrlich as a great 
light of science. 

November 21, 1917, the following news item appeared in 
the Chicago Daily Tribune : 



"Doctors Cheer at Discovery of New Cures' ' 

" Announcement of two discoveries of world wide importance in 
the cure of tetanus and syphilis were made today at the annual 
fall meeting of the National Academy of Science, held at the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania. 

"Discovery of the new drug, known as A-189, was made at the 
Rockefeller institute after experiments dating from the outbreak 
of the world war. It means virtually the medical independence of 
America from Germany. 

"The new drug, an organic arsenical compound, can be prepared 
in this country at a nominal cost of five cents a dose wholesale, 
whereas the wholesale price of salvarsan is now $3.50 a dose. 

"But the most Important feature of the new invention is the 
fact that it develops greater resistance for the spirochaetal infec- 
tions without doing as much damage to the cells of the body." 



184 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

In the last paragraph of this report it is admitted that 
the old preparation of salvarsan did much damage to the 
system. New preparations of old poisons are usually in- 
troduced to the profession with similar phrases, i. e., "The 
old preparations of this drug were known to have very 
serious effects upon the system, but this new product of 
our laboratory produces all the good effects of the drug 
without any of its destructive after effects.' ' (This an- 
nouncement holds good until a new preparation is dis- 
covered. — Author. ) 

Arsenic 
Allopathic Uses : 

1. Externally as caustic (with iodin) against lupus, 
keratosis and new growth of skin (does not act until 
absorbed) . 

2. Internally against chronic skin eruptions (with 
sulphur) . 

3. Lues as salvarsan (606) neosalvarsan (914) and 
sodium cacodylate. 

4. Hay fever, asthma. 

5. Popular tonic hematinic used with iron for leukemia, 
pernicious anemia and symptomatic anemia resulting from 
tuberculosis, malaria, gout, rheumatism, etc. 

6. General tonic and alterative in all cases of perverted 
metabolism. "5 gtt. Fowler's Solution t. i. d. Increase 
1 gtt. daily until eyelids become oedematous or until faint 
darting pains are felt in abdomen. Reduce dose and con- 
tinue until the above symptoms reappear. Reduce again 
and repeat." 

Accidental Poisoning: 

1. Paris green, "Rough on Rats," naphthalein and 
other insect and vermin exterminators. 

2. Cloth dyes. Wool in manufacture is treated with 



ARSENIC 185 

arsenic as a preservative. Glazed and wall papers. 

3. " Cancer cures." Condition powders. 

4. Taxidermists and furriers. 

5. Sprays for parasites and insects on vegetables and 
trees. 

6. Cosmetics. 

Toxicology: 

Readily diffusible, producing excessive oxidation and 
combustion. 

Toxic only to organisms with, a central nervous system. 

Symptoms of Chronic Arsenical Poisoning: 

1. Waxy complexion with loose, brittle hair and nails. 

2. Arsenical eczema. 

3. Puffed eyelids. Conjunctival injection. Photopho- 
bia. Lachrymation. 

4. Catarrhal discharges from all mucous surfaces. 

5. Cold drizzling sensation over back. 

6. Numbness and tingling in extremities. 

7. Neuralgia and peripheral neuritis. 

8. Progressive muscular atrophy. 

9. Engorgement of liver, spleen and lymphatic glands. 

Elimination of Drug in Healing Crises : 

1. Kidneys, bowels, liver. 

2. Skin, in form of arsenical eczema, boils, running 
sores, dandruff and shedding of hair. 

3. Catarrhal discharges from all mucous surfaces. 
Retained longest in bones, ligaments and other hard 

tissues. 

Signs in the Iris: 

Arsenic, the third drug in the group of alteratives, shows 
in the outer margin of the iris in white flakes resembling 



186 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

snowflakes or beaten white of egg. We find these signs 
in the eyes of many people who have taken the poison in 
medicines and tonics or who have absorbed it accidentally. 
(Color plate, b, page 116.) 



CHAPTER XVII 

BROMIDS 

(Color plate, Figs, a, e, Page 116) 

The salts of bromin most commonly used are potassium, 
ammonium and sodium bromid. These salts act as de- 
pressants and narcotics, particularly to the brain and 
nervous system. They lessen the sensitiveness of the 
nerves and their conductivity and are also powerful de- 
pressants on the heart and sex organs, often causing loss 
of sex power. 

Bromids show in the iris as white or yellowish white 
discolorations. They appear in the form of a crescent in 
the upper regions of the iris, indicating that the drug 
exhibits a special affinity for the brain and sympathetic 
nervous system. (Color plate, a-e, p. 116.) The more 
strongly marked this sign in the iris the more symptoms of 
chronic bromism will be exhibited by the patient. A very 
noticeable symptom of chronic bromid poisoning is a 
peculiar acne form rash. 

The eruptions on the face and neck may turn into ab- 
scesses and ulcers. Frequently the victims of bromism 
exhibit erythema and copper colored blotches. They also 
suffer from digestive disturbances. Mental symptoms are 
very prominent, there being a distinct action on the blood 
vessels of the brain; these blood vessels contract causing 
anemia and atrophy of tissues, weakening and loss of 
memory, defective coordination of muscular activity, dif- 
ficulty in walking and tremor of the limbs. 

J. Mitchell Bruce, M. D., in his " Materia Medica and 
Therapeutics", says: 

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188 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

"The great vital centers of the medulla are depressed 
by bromids; respiration becomes weaker and slower, 
whence, possibly, part of the value of the drug in whoop- 
ing cough. The heart is also slowed and weakened in its 
action. . . . The spinal centers, nerves and muscles 
are all depressed by bromids, the latter so much so that 
the convulsions of strychnin poisoning cannot be induced." 

This confirms my assertion that all sedatives, hypnotics 
and narcotics are merely brain and nerve paralyzers. 

The salts of bromin, in addition to serving as painkillers 
and sleep producers, are the great epileptic remedy of 
the old school of medicine. It matters not where the epi- 
leptic seeks relief from his terrible malady — whether he 
consults the doctor on the next corner or the high priced 
"specialist"; whether he buys nostrums of an advertising 
quack or visits the great sanitariums for epileptics in 
Europe ; the treatment is the same — bromids in some form 
or other. This treatment may be varied sometimes by 
the use of other brain paralyzing agents, such as chloral, 
cannabis indica, etc., but these, like the bromids, merely 
give temporary, fictitious relief ; they never cure the dis- 
ease. Professors in medical colleges acknowledge this 
freely to their students. 

The bromids are given primarily to suppress the epi- 
leptic convulsions. Unfortunately, however, they benumb 
and paralyze not only the centers of the brain affected by 
the convulsions, but the entire organ, some parts suffering 
more than others. This explains the gradual loss of mem- 
ory, mental decline, progressive paralysis and final idiocy 
of the victims of bromism. These chronic complications 
are due not to the disease itself, but to the paralyzing 
effect of the drug. 

Medical science has failed to discover the "epileptic 
center", that is, the locality of the brain especially af- 
fected in the epileptic convulsions. The discovery was 



BROMIDS 189 

made through the diagnosis from the iris, in the following 
way, by Rev. N. Liljequist, a Swedish clergyman, who has 
devoted his life to the study of this interesting science 
and who has written a most instructive book on the subject. 

Liljequist one day examined a man suffering from epi- 
lepsy. The disease had been caused by an accident in a 
saw-mill. A saw burst, a piece of it striking the man 
behind the left ear, burying itself deeply in the bones of 
the skull. The epileptic convulsions dated from that 
time. Evidently the condition was due to pressure on the 
brain, caused by the piece of steel, which had penetrated 
the skull. Liljequist looked into the iris for a sign of 
the wound in the head and found a well defined open lesion 
in the left iris. Afterwards, when examining the eyes of 
epileptics he always looked for signs of the disease in this 
area of the iris and seldom failed to discover indications 
of abnormal conditions in that locality. 

My experience has been the same. In almost every 
case of epilepsy I find the signs of drug poisons, of nerve 
rings, or of acute and chronic lesions in the iris area of 
the left cerebellum. (See chart, frontispiece, area 3.) 

Ten years ago Mr. L. came to me for examination. His 
left iris showed a marked lesion in area 3. It was appar- 
ently the sign of an injury, and when I examined the skull 
I found behind the left ear deep scars radiating from the 
depression. The location of the lesion in the iris and the 
scars behind the ear made me think at once of epilepsy, 
and I asked him whether he was not affected by the 
malady. 

He answered, "This is the trouble about which I have 
come to consult you ; when I was four years old I had a 
fall and crushed in the bones of the skull behind the left 
ear. Immediately following the accident I went into 
spasms and convulsions and have suffered with epilepsy 



190 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

The findings in this case fully confirmed the discovery 
of Liljequist. It will be seen that the epileptic area lies 
in close proximity to the ear. 

Physiology teaches us that one of the functions of the 
internal mechanism of the ear is to aid in the maintenance 
of equilibrium. These centers, therefore, must be the ones 
affected in epileptic convulsions, for muscular coordina- 
tion and the sense of equilibrium are instantly and com- 
pletely inhibited in such attacks as evidenced by the 
sudden fall and violent spasms. 

Iridology has been of incalculable value, not only in 
discovering the location of the epileptic center, but also 
in throwing new light on the causes of the dreadful ail- 
ment. Undoubtedly, in the instance of Mr. L., whose skull 
was injured by a fall, the disease was caused by pressure 
of the indented bones, and therefore seemed to be a fitting 
case for a surgical operation. Fortunately for him he 
was not operated upon. I say fortunately, because tre- 
phining of the skull has proved to be anything but a 
blessing. For a time the operation was popular in the 
hospitals of Vienna, but it was found that most of these 
"successful" operations were, in the course of years, fol- 
lowed by serious brain diseases. It has been practically 
abandoned as a cure for epilepsy except in cases of acci- 
dental injury to the bony structure of the skull similar to 
the one above described. 

In many instances the removal of the pieces of bone 
pressing on the brain has undoubtedly cured cases of 
epilepsy, insanity and other mental disorders, but the 
after effects of trephining, on the whole, have not been 
desirable. 

In many cases of this kind adhesions are formed which 
draw the brain tissues out of their proper alignments and 
interfere with circulation and nutrition. The develop- 
ments in Mr. L.'s case proved that, at least in some in- 



BROMIDS 191 

stances, epilepsy caused by injury to the skull can be cured 
by natural methods of treatment applied to the organism 
as a whole. When he came to us for treatment his condi- 
tion was serious. The attacks displayed especial severity 
at night. An attendant had to be with him constantly. 
Aside from the typical brief spasms, he exhibited a peculiar 
form of convulsions, which I have not observed in any 
other case. 

For hours at a time he would be tossing about in spasms, 
in a dazed, semi-conscious condition. Within six months, 
however, the convulsions ceased entirely. He remained 
with us nine months longer, undergoing the regular 
regimen without experiencing a recurrence of the old 
trouble. 

In many instances we have, by means of Iridology, 
traced the exciting cause of the disorder to abnormal con- 
ditions in the digestive organs. Several cases resulted 
from irritation by worms, others from certain forms of 
indigestion. The latter patients were invariably addicted 
to voracious over eating. 

A certain form of indigestion, due to an abnormal con- 
dition of the stomach, and to over eating, affects the 
solar plexus, and from there the impulse to convulsions is 
transmitted to the epileptic brain center. In such cases 
we found fasting to be of great benefit in overcoming the 
abnormal appetite, as well as in curing the digestive dis- 
turbance. 

In patients of this type we have observed that the con- 
vulsions begin with the undulatory movements in the 
stomach region and thence travel upward to the brain. 

It is a fact that epilepsy often comes and goes with 
rheumatic conditions and no doubt many cases are due 
to excess of either phosphoric or uric acid in the organism. 
These acids are powerful stimulants and irritants of nerve 
and brain tissues and their activity must be held in check 



192 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

by sodium and sulphur. Proteid foods abound in the 
acid producing elements, phosphorus and nitrogen, but 
are lacking entirely in the acid binding alkaline elements. 
We can readily see why a one sided meat-and-egg-white- 
bread-potato-coffee-and-pie diet may produce nervous ail- 
ments, such as epilepsy, St. Vitus' dance, hysteria, nervous 
excitability and sexual over stimulation. 

Naturally the cure of such abnormal excitability of 
nerve and brain tissues lies in a reduction of the acid 
producing proteids and carbohydrates and in an increased 
use of fruits and vegetables, which are rich in the acid 
binding and eliminating organic salts. 

Years ago, when my professional shingle was adorning 
one of the old mansions on sooty, gasoline scented Michi- 
gan Boulevard, a Southern lady came to me with her son 
who was about twenty-two years of age. His blue eyes 
displayed a heavy scurf rim. The dark pigmentation was 
especially marked in the areas of feet and legs, and it 
protruded like a "V" into the field of the left cerebellum. 
In this area were visible also segments of several nerve 
rings. The upper iris displayed very distinctly the whitish 
half -moons of bromids. 

The stomach and intestines exhibited the light yellowish 
discoloration peculiar to scrofulous elimination through 
these organs. (This discoloration of the intestinal field 
is often mistaken for the yellowish signs of quinin and 
sulphur.) This data given, the rest was easy. 

I addressed the young man as follows: "You have 
always suffered from poor circulation, cold, clammy, 
sweaty hands and feet." 

"Yes, that is so." 

"You suppressed the foot-sweat." 

"Yes/that is so. I was playing with a football team 
and perspiration of the feet troubled me very much. I 
used drying powders and cured it." 



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BROMIDS 193 

"Soon after that you had attacks of dizziness and faint- 
ing spells and then regular epileptic fits. ' ' 

"Yes, that is true.' ' 

* ' Since then you have taken bromids in large quantities 
but, instead of curing the disease, it has grown worse. 
Lately your memory has been very much weakened. There 
is a lack of concentration and at times a great physical 
lassitude and mental stupor." 

"It is worse than that," answered his mother; "of late 
he has frequently left home for his office and landed in 
a different part of the city without knowing how he came 
there. Once, in that dazed condition, he was nearly killed 
by a street car. It seems that nothing can be done for 
him. I have been traveling with him now for three years 
from one specialist to another, but without avail/ ' 

"All this is very plain, Madam," I replied. "As long 
as you adhere to allopathy, it matters not how many au- 
thorities you consult, the treatment is bromids and 
bromids and nothing but bromids. These so called seda- 
tives are in reality brain paralyzers. They are given with 
the idea of paralyzing the brain centers in which the epi- 
leptic convulsions arise, but unfortunately these agents do 
not confine their benumbing influence to the left back 
brain, which is the seat of these disturbances. You notice 
that these white half -moons in his eyes extend more or 
less over the entire brain region. (Color plate, a-e, p. 116.) 
Bromism paralyzes the speech center in one, memory in 
another, the center for 'locality' in another, according to 
where the poison happens to concentrate. These signs 
in the eye also explain why the consumers of these 
drugs are slowly but surely turned into idiots and 
paralytics." 

"Then you think there is no hope for him," sadly inter- 
rupted his mother. 

"There is no hope for him, Madam," I replied, "by the 



194 IKIDIAGNOSIS 

bromid route; but under natural treatment his chances 
of recovery are very good indeed. Suppression of the 
foot-sweat threw the scrofulous taints, in process of elim- 
ination through the feet, into the cerebellum and this 
causes the periodical irritation of the 'epileptic center \ 
Natural methods of living and of treatment will eliminate 
these systemic poisons and thus remove the cause of the 
trouble.' ' 

Deeply impressed by the diagnosis and by my explana- 
tion of the natural methods of treatment, she concluded 
to leave the young man under our care. I then explained 
the law of crises and told them to look for five or six weeks 
of steady improvement, then for a temporary return of 
the old conditions, for convulsions, gastric disturbances, 
nose bleed, perspiration of hands and feet, nervous de- 
pression, homesickness, etc., etc. 

After the mother's departure there arrived in due sea- 
son a letter from the father, which ran as follows : 

"Dear Son: Dr. X., our family physician, after listen- 
ing to your mother's report, informs me that your doctor 
and his Nature Cure are a humbug and a fake. I want 
you to return home without delay." 

In reply to this Mr. B., Jr., wrote to his father: "So 
far I have obeyed you in everything, but in this matter, 
which concerns me so deeply, I am going to follow my 
own judgment. Our family physician is entirely ignorant 
of this system, while Dr. L. has studied allopathic medi- 
cine in addition to his Natural Therapeutics. Dr. X. does 
not know what he is talking about and is not competent 
to judge." 

The preliminary improvement made in his case was 
marked and rapid. The bromid eruptions and the dull, 
stupid expression of the face cleared and in six weeks 
the patient looked the picture of health. Convulsions had 
decreased from two or three daily to about one a week. 



BROMIDS 195 

In the latter part of the sixth week the iris area corre- 
sponding to the intestines became covered with a white 
film. I informed the patient that a bowel crisis was ap- 
proaching, and within twentyfour hours my prediction 
was verified by the development of a lively diarrhea. This 
lasted several days and subsided without interference on 
our part. 

I gave the patient one dose of homeopathic sulphur in 
a high potency. The convulsions now came thick and 
fast and with great severity. One morning his pillow was 
covered with blood from the nose-bleed. At times his 
hands and feet were dripping wet. The perspiration was 
of a disagreeable, sweetish odor, peculiar to these epileptic 
crises. 

At this time he felt very much depressed, discouraged 
and homesick, and if it had not been for my accurate pre- 
diction and description of almost every crisis symptom, 
he would have followed his father's advice and taken the 
next train home. But by means of a magnifying mirror 
he himself saw the black patches in the areas of the left 
cerebellum and feet interwoven with white lines, indi- 
cating the active elimination of scrofulous encumbrances. 

For about four weeks more these acute manifestations 
continued and then subsided never to return. 

At the end of the fifth month he left for home in perfect 
health 

Bromids and Loss of Identity 

Frequently we read in the daily papers about people 
who have wandered away from home and lost all recol- 
lection of their identity, their home and former occupation. 
Some of these patients recover, others remain permanently 
affected. 

The majority of these cases are caused by bromids, coal 
tar poisons or other brain paralyzing drugs. The only 



196 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

possibility of cure in such cases lies in thorough, systematic 
natural treatment. 

Idiocy and Paralysis Caused by Bromids 

Some of the most pitiable wrecks of humanity in early 
youth are to be found among the victims of bromism. I 
have known young men and women still in their teens 
who walked with a tottering gait and presented the aged 
and withered features of people seventy years old, feeble 
in body and stunted in mind, the stare of idiocy in their 
eyes, typical defectives created by the bromids or other 
brain and nerve paralyzing drugs. 

Bromin 
Allopathic Uses: 

1. Externally, elementary bromin is used occasionally 
as an escarotic. 

2. Internally the bromids are used as sedatives, hyp- 
notics and antispasmodics in acute specific fevers, acute 
alcoholism, mania, hysteria, infantile convulsions, whoop- 
ing cough, hypoehrondriasis, general nervousness, sexual 
over excitement, gastro-intestinal disorders of reflex origin, 
and "with great success " in epilepsy. 

Toxicology: 

Is rapidly absorbed from broken skin and mucous sur- 
faces. Circulates as sodium bromid. Appears in the se- 
cretions a few minutes after ingestion, yet its total elimi- 
nation stretches over a long period of time, so that by 
repeated doses the patient is kept continuously under its 
influence. 

Its sedative effect is due partly to depression of sensory 
and motor nerves, but chiefly to reduced activity of nerve 
centers in brain and cord. (This confirms our claims that 



BEOMIDS 197 

bromids and other sedatives and hypnotics benumb and 
paralyze brain and nerve matter. — Author.) 

Symptoms of Bromism: 

1. Brom-acne, so common in drugged epileptics — is in 
turn treated with arsenic. 

2. Yellowish discoloration of skin with formation of 
blisters. 

3. Catarrh. Salivation. 

4. Headache, dizziness and general depression. 

5. Impotence. 

6. Diminished reflex excitability. 

7. Neuro-muscular weakness, especially of lower ex- 
tremities. 

8. Premature senility, paralysis, insanity, loss of self 
consciousness. 

Elimination of Drug in Healing Crises: 

1. Kidneys (mainly). Increased urination. 

2. Salivary glands, mucoid accumulations in the mouth. 

3. Mucous membranes, acute catarrhal elimination. 

4. Skin in form of brom-acne, so familiar in drugged 
epileptics — in turn treated with arsenic. 

5. Abnormal perspiration, nose bleed, diarrhea. 

Signs in the Iris: 

White crescent in region of brain and white wreath in 
outer margin of iris. (Color plate, a-e, p. 116.) 



CHAPTER XVIII 
COAL TAR PRODUCTS 

(Color plate, Figs, d and f, Page 116) 
Signs in the Iris : 

Antikamnia produces in the upper part of the iris a 
greyish white veil which looks like a thin coat of white- 
wash. (Color plate, figs, d and f.) Antifebrin, antipyrin 
and phenacetin produce a pigmentation proceeding from 
the sympathetic wreath outward, in color ranging from 
gray to light yellow. 

Creosote and guaiacol, which are used extensively as 
germ killers in tuberculosis and other germ diseases, pro- 
duce a greyish or ashen veil over the entire iris. (Color 
plate, Figs, a and b.) In Europe the utter uselessness of 
these agents and their destructive effects have been fully 
recognized and they have been practically abandoned. In 
this country, however, these poisons are still widely used. 
The same holds true of antitoxin and tuberculin. These 
serums also have been practically abandoned by the most 
advanced European physicians, while here they are rather 
gaining in popularity with the medical profession. 

Even "harmless" germ killers, if such there be, will 
never prove a cure for tuberculosis, because the tubercular 
bacillus is the product of the disease, not its cause. It 
grows in morbid and decayed lung tissue only. 

The only way to prevent the growth and multiplication 
of the dreaded bacilli or their microzyma is to remove 
from the system the morbid and scrofulous soil in which 
they thrive. Elimination, not "germ killing' ', is the cure. 
Every germ killer is a protoplasmic poison, and that which 

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COAL TAB PEODUCTS 199 

weakens and kills the protoplasm of bacteria and parasites 
also weakens and kills the protoplasm of the normal cells 
of the human body. 

During the last thirty years coal tar preparations have 
become very popular as pain-killers and hypnotics. Anti- 
pyrin, antifebrin, phenacetin, antikamnia, triasol and 
dozens of other preparations are obtained by the distilla- 
tion of coal tar. All of these agents are highly poisonous 
and have a depressing and paralyzing effect on the brain, 
heart and respiratory centers. The use of these agents in 
the form of doctor's prescriptions, headache powders, 
nerve soothers, and hypnotics accounts for the increase in 
heart disease and insanity much more than does the "stren- 
uous life". The stimulating and soothing effect of many 
of the popular soft drinks, such as coca cola and bromo 
seltzer, is due to poisonous stimulants, hypnotics or 
narcotics. 

A few years ago Dr. "Wiley, the government chemist, 
exhibited at the St. Louis exposition a flag of the United 
States which had been colored by anilin dyes extracted 
from canned goods. His investigations and laboratory 
experiments proved that most of the foods sold in grocery 
stores were adulterated not only with cheap ingredients, 
but also with poisonous coloring materials and antiseptics, 
most of which were found to be coal tar preparations. 

In our modern artificial life people absorb poisons in 
many ways which they never suspect. 

Insanity and Paralysis Caused by Antikamnia 

Ten years ago a patient called me up on the telephone 
and asked me to come to her house immediately. On 
arriving there I was asked to examine a woman who was 
sitting in a chair before us. The upper part of the iris 
in both eyes was covered with a greyish veil looking 
somewhat like whitewash. (Color plate, Fig. f, page 116.) 



200 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

I said to Mrs. A., who had summoned me, that the woman 
must be suffering from coal tar poisoning, probably anti- 
kamnia or creosote, and that this must be severe enough to 
affect her mind. Mrs. A. answered that this was correct — 
that the patient was mentally unbalanced and also deaf 
and dumb. Then she explained that the woman had been 
doing her cleaning and laundry work, but of late had 
shown signs of mental aberration, and that during the last 
few days the condition had become acute. A doctor was 
called to examine the patient. His diagnosis was "insanity 
from worry over business matters". The friends of the 
patient had told him that Bessie had lost $1,400.00 by 
loaning it to dishonest acquaintances. From this the 
doctor concluded that worry over money matters was the 
cause of her insanity. He recommended that she be com- 
mitted to an insane asylum. 

Mrs. A. called on the people with whom Bessie had 
lived and while searching her room they found a number 
of empty antikamnia boxes. Then both Mrs. A. and her 
landlady remembered that Bessie had been in the habit 
of taking medicine for her headaches and neuralgia. This 
explained the source of the coal tar sign in the iris. 

With the aid of Mrs. A. the patient was placed under 
our care and treatment. For several months she was at 
times violently insane. Then she began to improve and 
after passing through the regular healing crises her mind 
cleared up to such an extent that in the fifth month we 
entrusted her with the care of our baby. Speech and 
hearing, however, while somewhat improved, remain to 
this day very defective. Ever since her recovery under 
the natural treatment she has been able to make her own 
living as domestic servant in private families. 

Worry over money matters might have unbalanced her 
mind but surely would not have caused loss of speech and 
hearing. This could be caused only by some poisonous 



COAL TAR PRODUCTS 201 

paralyzing agent. In this case also the diagnosis from the 
eye proved more reliable than the testimony of the expert 
alienist. If she had been committed to an insane asylum 
it would have been for life. 

Coal Tar Products 

Acetanilid, Antipyrin, Creosote, Phenacetin, Antikamnia, 

etc. 
Allopathic Uses: 

1. Powerful antipyretics acting within one hour. 

2. General nervous sedatives, anodyns and hypnotics, 
"giving complete and prompt relief in nervous headache, 
neuralgia, ataxia pains, gout, rheumatism, dysmenorrhea, 
etc." 

Accidental Poisoning: 

1. Patent fever remedies, and headache powders. 

2. Antikamnia and other proprietary anodyns. 
Toxicology: 

1. Reduction of blood alkalinity and red corpuscles. 
(This decrease in the oxygen carrying power of the blood 
accounts for the antipyretic action.) 

2. Depression of all vital functions with a special tend- 
ency to cardiac failure (due to anilin). 

Symptoms of Coal Tar Poisoning: 

1. Undue readiness to fatigue. 

2. Despondency and loss of memory. 

3. Renal irritation. 

4. Nervousness, neuarasthenia, paralysis, insanity. 

Elimination of Drug in Healing Crises : 

1. Excessive perspiration and erythematous eruptions. 

2. Catarrhal discharges. 

3. Excessive urination. 

4. Nervous and mental disturbances. 



CHAPTER XIX 
MISCELLANEOUS DRUGS 

Salicylic Acid 
Signs in the Iris: 

Salicylic acid shows in the iris as a whitish grey cloud 
or veil, spreading unevenly over the outer margin of the 
iris, being more pronounced in the upper region. It re- 
sembles a whitewash and if abundant, tends to efface the 
peripheral border of the iris like glycerin. It is fre- 
quently associated with the sodium ring. (Color plate, figs. 
a and f, page 116.) 

The drug has a corroding effect upon the membranous 
linings of the digestive organs. The continued use of it 
leaves these structures in an atrophic condition, which 
results in malassimilation, malnutrition and defective 
elimination. These conditions show in the iris by a dark- 
ening and gradual browning or blackening of the areas 
of the stomach and intestines. People thus affected suffer 
from the worst forms of wasting diseases. 

Allopathic Uses: 

1. Antiseptic surgical dressings. 

2. For softening and removing horny skin growths. 

3. Perspiring feet and night sweats. 

4. Gastric and intestinal fermentation and decompo- 
sition. 

5. Popular antipyretic but requires larger doses than 
antipyrin. 

6. Chronic cystitis associated with foul alkaline urine 
and phosphatic deposits. 

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MISCELLANEOUS DRUGS 203 

7. "Specific" against acute inflammatory rheumatism 
(used in form of salicylate of sodium or lithium ; of late 
administered hypodermically to avoid gastro-intestinal 
irritation). "Administer large doses until ringing in the 
ears indicates physiological saturation. Discontinue until 
this symptom subsides, then repeat." 

Accidental Poisoning: 

1. Food and drink preservatives (1 percent checks 
enzyme action). 

2. Oil of wintergreen, gaultheria and sweet birch. 

3. Aspirin, novaspirin and other ''cold remedies": 
Salol. Salophen. Salipyrin. 

Toxicology: 

The "specific" action of sodium salicylate against acute 
inflammatory rheumatism is ascribed to the following 
factors : 

1. "It reduces the painful swelling and inflammation ' ' 
(by suppressing oxidization like all coal tar products). 

2. "It acts as a germicide against possible rheumatism 
micro organisms" (subsequently causes renal irritation). 

3. "It increases the output of such nitrogenous wastes 
as urea, uric acid, urates, etc." (by creating new nitrogen- 
ous wastes through irritation, and not by facilitating the 
elimination of already existing waste acids through the 
neutralizing action of sodium, which shows in the iris as 
a "sodium ring"). 

Symptoms of Chronic Poisoning: 

In addition to the symptoms produced by the other coal 
tar products, salicylic acid also gives rise to : 

1. Dullness of hearing. Dimness of vision. 

2. Nausea. Diarrhea alternating with constipation. 



204 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

Elimination of the Drug in Healing Crises : 

1. Severe indigestion — cramps in stomach and bowels, 
nausea and vomiting. 

2. Acne form and pustular skin eruption. 

3. Acute catarrhal elimination. 

Strychnin 
(Color plate, Fig. a, Page 116) 

An alkaloid prepared from nux vomica, a white, crystal- 
line, odorless powder of intensely bitter taste. 

Allopathic uses : A cardiac and general nervine tonic. 

Acute symptoms : Tetanic convulsions ; eyeballs promi- 
nent, pupils dilated, respiration impeded, pulse feeble and 
rapid. 

Symptoms of chronic strychnin poisoning: Weakness 
of the heart; sluggish circulation, low blood pressure, 
various forms of paralysis; indigestion; spastic contrac- 
tion in the pit of the stomach. 

Sign in the Iris : The sign of strychnin is very readily 
discerned in the iris. It shows as a white wheel of perfect 
proportions around the pupil in the region of the stomach, 
indicating that the poison has a special affinity for this 
organ. On closer inspection it will be seen that this wheel 
is made up of fine white lines or spokes radiating from the 
pupil. 

With the strychnin sign in the iris we find associated an 
atonic or atrophic condition of the stomach : hypo-acidity, 
indigestion, fermentation and gas formation. Like all 
powerful stimulants, the first tonic effects of the drug on 
the digestive organs and the heart are followed gradually 
by weakness and progressive atrophy and paralysis. As 
a stomachic the drug is given in the form of nux vomica. 
It is one of the favorite heart stimulants of the old school 
of medicine. 



MISCELLANEOUS DRUGS 205 

Phosphorus 
(Color plate, Fig. f, Page 116) 

Sign in the Iris: 

Phosphorus shows in the iris in whitish, greyish and 
faded yellow flakes and clouds in the areas of stomach, 
intestines, brain and limbs. (Color plate, f, in lungs and 
throat.) It was used in allopathic prescriptions more ex- 
tensively in former years. I have frequently found the 
sign of phosphorus in people who had been treated with 
the drug for mumps, for nervous and mental troubles 
and for sexual weakness. These patients suffered from 
severe chronic headaches, neuro-muscular pains, variously 
diagnosed as neuritis, multiple neuritis and chronic rheu- 
matism. They also suffered from stubborn chronic indi- 
gestion. During the first year after absorption of the 
drug, the patients suffer with chronic diarrhea, which 
gradually changes into stubborn constipation. 

I have frequently seen the sign of phosphorus in the eyes 
of people who became poisoned with phosphorus in match 
factories and in chemical laboratories. Next to mercury 
it is the worst form of vocational poisoning. 

Allopathic Uses: 

1. Rickets, osteomalacia, ununited fractures. 

2. Nervous disorders, like neuralgia, mania, melan- 
cholia, sexual exhaustion, etc. 

3. Chronic pulmonary diseases. 

4. Some skin diseases such as psoriasis, lupus, etc. 

Accidental Poisoning: 

1. Workmen handling white phosphorus. 

2. Vermin poisons, matches, etc. 



206 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

Toxicology: 

Circulates mostly in unchanged form but is partly oxi- 
dized at the expense of hemoglobin into phosphoric and 
phosphorous acid. 

Symptoms of " Lucifer Disease" are the following: 

1. Ulceration of gums and necrosis of jaws starting as 
carious teeth. 

2. General weakness due to fatty degeneration of all 
tissues. 

3. Hectic fever. Anemia. Purpura. 

4. Gastro-intestinal irritation; diarrhea; tenderness 
over liver. 

5. Various forms of paralysis. 

6. Death from general nerve exhaustion. 

Elimination of Drug in Healing Crises : 

1. Deep reaching ulcers, chiefly in mouth. 

2. Itchy eruptions on skin. 

3. Hemorrhagic form of jaundice resembling scurvy. 

4. Intestinal tract, diarrheas. 

Turpentine 
(Color plate, Fig. d, Page 116) 
It shows in the form of dense, grey clouds, mostly in 
the areas of the kidneys, sexual organs and bladder. 

Glycerin 
(Color plate, Fig. f, Page 116) 
Large white clouds in the areas of skin, kidneys or 
lungs. They may efface the peripheral border of the iris. 
(Color plate, areas 18-20-28.) 

Ergot 
(Color plate, Fig. c, Page 116) 
Ergot is a parasite or "smut" of rye; it was sometimes 
found in rye flour of poor quality. Improved grain clean- 



MISCELLANEOUS DRUGS 207 

ing machinery has made cases of poisoning from this 
cause of rare occurrence. 

This poison is sometimes used by women in attempts to 
induce criminal abortion. (Color plate, c, areas 14-20) 

Acute and Chronic Symptoms of Ergot Poisonirg 
(Ergotism) 

The drug causes spasmodic contraction of the arteries 
and sclerosis of the posterior columns of the spinal cord. 

The early symptoms are those of digestive derangement ; 
later symptoms are gangrene of the fingers and toes, or 
painful spasmodic clinching of the hands and hyperexten- 
sion of the feet. 

Signs in the Iris : 

Rust brown spots in various parts of the body. (Color 
plate, G.g. c, areas 14-18) 

A few days ago an allopathic physician who is a good 
friend of mine told me about a lady whom he was treating 
for a fibroid tumor on the womb. He remarked that he 
was getting good results by the administration of ergot, 
that it was " starving the tumor' ' by constricting the 
blood vessels and cutting off the blood supply. Since I 
knew that he was not open to the philosophy of Natural 
Therapeutics I refrained from disputing his argument. 
Being a trained scientist, how could he overlook the fact 
that the ergot surely would not confine its constricting 
and starving effects to the tumor, but that it would have 
the same effects upon the normal tissues and organs of 
the body. 

Opiates and Narcotics 

Every time these drugs are used they weaken, benumb 
and paralyze brain and nerve matter and thereby inter- 



208 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

fere with and suppress Nature's acute healing processes 
and produce or aggravate chronic conditions. Recovery 
in many critical cases is made impossible through the de- 
pressive and paralyzing effects of these poisons. 

Opium 
(Color plate, Figs, b, d and e, Page 116) 

Opium is the oldest and most widely used anodyn and 
hypnotic. It is prepared from the juice of the white poppy. 
The drug is used in the pure form, and from it are pre- 
pared several alkaloids of which the principal ones are 
morphin and codein. Opium shows in the iris in pure 
white, straight lines radiating in the form of a star from 
the pupil, or from the sympathetic wreath, especially to 
the upper part of the iris. (Color plate, figs, b, d and e.) 

In allopathic doses opium acts at first as a stimulant, 
then as a sedative, diaphoretic (i.e., sweat-producer), 
anodyn and hypnotic. It belongs to the most popular 
remedies of the old school of medicine. Therefore we 
frequently see the sign of the drug in the iris. When 
taken in sufficient quantities it creates around the pupil, 
in the area of the stomach and intestines, a grayish white 
star. The poison seems to have a special and permanent 
affinity for the stomach and bowels and sympathetic nerv- 
ous system, and is one of the causes of chronic constipa- 
tion in children who have been dosed with paregoric. 
Many cases of lifelong chronic constipation and indiges- 
tion we have traced back to paregoric and other baby 
soothers used in infancy and early childhood. 

Laudanum 

Laudanum is a tincture of opium. It contains 44 grains 
of opium per ounce. It shows in the iris similar to opium. 



MISCELLANEOUS DEUGS 209 

Paregoric 
Paregoric is a mixture of opium, camphor, glycerin, 
annis seed, benzoic acid and alcohol. One half ounce of 
paregoric contains one grain of opium.* 

Morphin 

Morphin is the principal alkaloid of opium, and its 
action is similar to that of the mother drug. It is used 
frequently as a sedative in heart disease, nervous disor- 
ders, asthma, coughs, catarrhs and mental diseases. It 
acts more promptly when injected subcutaneously. 

Helpless indeed would be the modern physician without 
the morphin syringe. How often must it serve as a decep- 
tive substitute for real relief and cure ! How grateful are 
the patient and his friends for the prompt relief f om pain ! 
But they do not realize the destructive after effects. They 
do not realize that momentary relief has been bought at 
the expense of the fighting power of the organism and 
that only too often the seductive and exalting effect of 
the poison makes a "dope fiend" for life. 

Though morphin is closely related to opium, its signs in 
the iris differ somewhat from those of the latter. It cre- 
ates in the iris fine white lines, which seem to lie on the 
surface and radiate from the pupil outward, especially 
into the upper part of the iris, or brain region. The signs, 
according to the severity of the chronic poisoning, vary 
from a few white lines to a thick white covering radiating 
from the pupil towards the upper rim of the iris. (Color 
plate, figs, b and e, page 116.) 

Cocain 
Cocain is an alkaloid obtained from coca leaves. The 
signs of this drug in the iris are very similar to those of 

*A prominent Chicago physician uses this preparation to kill de- 
fective babies. He induces the mothers of the babes to administer 
the deadly poison. 



210 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

morphin. Cocain produces local anesthesia and anemia by 
paralyzing the sensory nerves and contracting the blood 
vessels. 

When given internally in allopathic doses, cocain acts 
at first as a stimulant, tonic and restorative. It enables 
persons who chew the leaf to undergo great muscular 
exertion with little or no fatigue. If the use of the drug 
and its various preparations is continued, it has by the 
law of action and reaction, a paralyzing effect upon the 
brain and spinal cord. 

I need not dilate further upon the subject of narcotics. 
Probably everyone of my readers has come in contact 
with victims of these dreadful poisons, which destroy not 
only the body but mind and soul as well. 

Anodyns and Analgesics (Pain Killers) 
Sedatives and Hypnotics (Sleep Producers) 

Anodyns are medicines that give relief from pain. The 
chief anodyn is opium, or its alkaloid, morphin. Others 
are cannabis indica, belladonna, hyoscyamus, stramonium, 
conium, potassium bromid, chloral hydrate, chloroform, 
ether, camphor, cocain and coal tar products. 

Analgesics are remedies that relieve pain, either by 
direct depression of the centers of perception and sensa- 
tion in the cerebrum, or by impairing the conductivity of 
the sensory nerve fibres. Antipyrin, antifebrin, phenaee- 
tin, exalgin and cocain are powerful analgesics. 

Hypnotics are medicines which produce sleep. The chief 
remedies of this group are bromids, paraldehyd, sulphonal, 
trional, tetranol, chloral hydrate, opium, morphin, cocain, 
hyoscyamus, hyosein, ether, chloroform and alcohol. 

All of these agents reduce pain and produce sleep be- 
cause they are poisonous paralyzers. They do not con- 
tribute anything toward removing the causes of the pains 
and insomnia; they merely benumb and paralyze the brain 



MISCELLANEOUS DEUGS 



211 



and spinal centers of perception and sensation and reduce 
the sensitiveness and conductivity of the nerve fibres. 

Natural Methods Versus "Dope" 

The advocates of poisonous pain killers, nerve soothers 
and sleep (?) producers have not even the excuse of les- 
sening human suffering. Natural methods, where it is im- 
possible to save life, insure at least an easy decline and 
painless transition. This we have proved in hundreds of 
cases that came to us in the last stages of cancer and of 
other diseases that are usually accompanied by great suf- 
fering. 

Though we have taken care of a great many cases of 
cancer of the breast, stomach, liver, intestines, etc., that 
came as "lost hopes' ' and passed away under our care, 
we have administered only a few doses of opiates to such 
patients within the last seventeen years. 

While ordinarily under regular treatment such sufferers 
are kept constantly under the influence of opiates, and in 
spite of these have to endure excruciating pain, those 
whom we have treated passed through the last stages of 
decline without great suffering. They all reported that 
their pains were easily bearable, and, with two exceptions, 
none ever asked for an opiate. 

The pain killers only temporarily paralyze the sensory 
nerves, then the pains return with increased force. We 
cannot cheat nature in that or any other way. Pains sup- 
pressed are but pains deferred. This is proved by the re- 
actions that are sure to come after the administration of 
pain killers and by the terrible tortures of the drug fiend 
when the "dope" is withheld from him. 

Do those who administer these agents realize that they 
are making drug fiends of their patients before they pass 
from this life ? We have good reason to believe that the 
destructive effects of these poisons continue after death. 



212 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

Everything in the physical world has its counterpart in the 
spiritual. Is it not possible that the spiritual counterpart 
of the drug affects the spiritual counterpart of the physical 
body — that which St. Paul calls the " spiritual body' 7 ? 
Therefore, the sufferings of the drug fiend may not be 
ended with physical death. Every physician knows that 
the "dope/' affects not only the physical body, but also 
the mental, emotional and moral characteristics ; they know 
that the dope fiend is invariably a liar, irresponsible and 
unmoral. 

Why should a patient be exposed to such mental and 
psychical destruction which may be of infinitely greater 
detriment to the permanent personality, the spiritual man, 
than mere physical disease, when the natural methods of 
treatment render the suffering easily bearable even in the 
most dreadful forms of chronic, destructive diseases? 

In view of the fact that these poisons undoubtedly 
shorten the course of human life, there is another question 
of grave import connected with the giving of opiates. In 
many instances where all available vital force is needed to 
battle the disease, a dose of morphin or chloral may be 
sufficient to suppress Nature 's healing efforts and to bring 
about a fatal termination, thus robbing the patient of his 
last chance of recovery. Only too often the patient suc- 
cumbs, not to the disease, but to the morphin syringe and 
other deadening hypnotics and sedatives, administered 
through impatience on the part of attendants and some- 
times through worse motives. 

The last days, or even the last hours of one ready to de- 
part may be the most important of his life. Have we the 
right to deprive him of his last opportunity for retrospec- 
tion and for balancing his account with the higher law? 
The following incident brought this home to me very 
forcibly : 

Several years ago, in one of the palatial homes of the 



MISCELLANEOUS DRUGS 213 

lake shore front, I treated an old man who had amassed 
a great fortune, possibly not in ways exactly in harmony 
with the Golden Rule. He was slowly dying with cancer 
of the liver. His wife, forty-five years his junior, had been 
his faithful and sympathetic nurse for several years. 
When the end was near she consulted a lawyer as to the 
advisability of having the husband make a will in her fa- 
vor. She was informed by the legal adviser that she 
would be better off if no will were made, since she was 
entitled to a liberal share of the fortune as her widow's 
dower, and that a will might only cause trouble and com- 
plications with the many children of the testator. 

From that moment on, her patience and seeming sympa- 
thy vanished. Every word and action betrayed eagerness 
to see him go. When the patient groaned with pain — or 
seeming pain — she insisted that opiates be administered. 
Being convinced that under the natural treatment his 
physical suffering was not great and that an opiate would 
shorten his life, I informed her that I had entered upon 
my life work not to take life, but to preserve life, and that 
if morphin injections were to be given some other physi- 
cian must do it. The more I objected the more strongly 
she insisted. The patient in the meantime kept on groan- 
ing and calling for help at the top of his voice. For hours 
he yelled, "I am suffering terribly; something must be 
done for me". 

Finally, at her behest, I called in a physician who pro- 
fessed to be willing to administer the drug. The patient 
was informed to this effect, and the doctor, ready to apply 
the needle, remained within call. From that time on un- 
til he passed away, twenty-four hours later, the patient 
never uttered another word of complaint or a groan. He 
knew it would mean the morphin syringe, and that this 
would shorten his life. Life was so precious to him, or pos- 
sibly the dread of the future so great, that he preferred 



214 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

to endure what pain there was rather than take chances 
on the opiate. His behavior proved, as I had surmised, 
that his suffering was more of a mental and spiritual than 
of a physical nature. 

Is it not possible that the last twenty-four hours were of 
greater importance to this man, as far as his spiritual wel- 
fare was concerned, than many years of selfish grabbing 
and hoarding? 



CHAPTER XX 

DISEASES OP THE VITAL ORGANS— THEIR SIGNS 
IN THE IRIS 

Stomach and Bowels 

The area of the stomach is located directly around the 
pupil (A), that of the intestines surrounds the stomach 
(B) and the border of the intestinal field represents the 




Fig. 17. 

sympathetic nervous system (C). See Chart, Frontispiece. 

Acute conditions of these organs show white in the 
iris (fig. 17), while chronic conditions, accompanied by 
gradual atrophy of the membranes of these organs, create 
dark grey, brown and black discolorations. (Color plate, 
figs, e and f.) 

Acute catarrhal conditions of the stomach are usually 
accompanied by excessive secretion of hydrochloric acid 
as well as by systemic accumulations of uric and other 

215 



216 



IRIDIAGNOSIS 



acids (Fig. 17), while the chronic condition, accompanied 
by more or less atrophy of the membranous linings of 
the stomach, is responsible for deficient secretion of hydro- 
chloric acid and pepsin (Pig. 18). 

In order to find out whether the contents of the stomach 
are hyperacid or hypoacid, physicians of the regular school 
introduce rubber tubes into the stomach and take test 
samples of its contents for examination in the laboratory. 




Fig. 18. 



The iridologist does not have to resort to this unpleasant 
and injurious practice. The showing in the iris reveals 
whether the subject is suffering from hyperacidity or hypo- 
acidity. If the stomach area in the iris shows white, this 
is a sign of acute inflammatory and hyperacid condition, 
while dark discoloration indicates a sluggish, atonic or 
atrophic condition of the membranous linings and there- 
fore a deficiency of hydrochloric acid and pepsin. As a 
result of deficient secretion the foods remain undigested, 
enter into morbid fermentation and create noxious gases 
and other pathogenic materials. 

If the stomach, through long continued destructive 
processes, is in a condition of chronic inflammation or 



DISEASES OP THE VITAL ORGANS 217 

ulceration, the inner edge around the pupil shows dark 
and ragged. (Fig. 17, p. 215.) 

As the disease processes in the stomach proceed from 
the acute and subacute to the chronic and destructive 
stages, we observe in the iris the appearance, first, of 
greyish or brownish spokes. These gradually darken until 
in the destructive stages they become quite heavy in ap- 
pearance and black in color. (Fig. 18, p. 216.) 

A weakened and relaxed condition of the digestive 
tract, resulting in enlargement and prolapsus of the 
organs is indicated in the iris by the distention of the areas 
of the stomach and bowels (Fig. 19, p. 218). This is true 
in a more pronounced degree of the intestinal tract, which 
is frequently greatly distended in the areas of the cecum, 
ascending colon, descending colon, sigmoid flexure and 
rectum, these parts of the intestinal tract being frequently 
enlarged on account of accumulation of food materials 
and feces. 

Drug Poisons in the Digestive Organs 

What has been said about signs of acute and chronic 
conditions in the stomach is also true of the intestines. 
Frequently the stomach area appears whitish, greyish or 
light brown, while the intestinal area is enormously dis- 
tended and shows the black spokes of chronic conditions. 
In such cases stomach digestion may be fairly active while 
the intestinal tract is in an atonic condition. (Fig. 19.) 

In many cases of mercurial poisoning the intestinal area 
shows deep black, indicating the paralyzing effect of the 
poison on the intestinal membranes. The liver in such 
cases also shows chronic signs. The intestinal area fre- 
quently shows the signs of quinin, iron, sulphur, opium 
and its derivatives. We also find in the intestines the 
signs of iodin but not of strychnin. (Fig. 26, p. 227.) 

Itch spots, the signs of suppression of psoric eruptions, 



218 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

we find quite often in the fields of the stomach and intes- 
tines. These always indicate a tendency to ulcers and 
benign and malignant tumors (Fig. 20). Cancer in these 
organs shows usually as a small black spot surrounded by 
white. (Fig. 14, Series IV, c.) 

(Fig. 20, p. 219.) I examined this patient six years ago 
and found several large itch spots in the intestines. I in- 
formed the husband of the lady that these itch spots indi- 
cated a strong tendency to cancer, but she did not remain 
for treatment. Four years afterward he brought his wife 

RIGHT LEFT 




Fig. 19. 

to us in the last stages of cancer of the intestines. It was 
too late for recovery. 

(Fig. 21, p. 220.) About the same time that I made this 
diagnosis I examined another lady whose left breast was 
slightly inflamed around the nipple. Her iris revealed 
itch spots in the left breast. I warned her also of the 
possibility of cancer. She took treatment for two months ; 
then her husband, who did not believe in Natural Thera- 
peutics, forced her to abandon the treatment and return 
to her home in a western city. When he brought her 
back three years later, the left breast was a solid mass 
of cancer. This case also had advanced beyond the pos- 



DISEASES OF THE VITAL ORGANS 219 

sibility of improvement. Itch spots showed also in the 
left groin and liver. Mrs. S. remembered distinctly that 
in her childhood she had suffered with eczematous erup- 
tions which were treated with "medicine and salves". 
Undoubtedly these remedies accounted for the heavy scurf 
rim in her eyes, and for the arsenical flakes. 

If these cancer patients and their relatives had under- 
stood the nature of psora and its hidden danger, both lives 
could have been saved. 

Diseases of the Liver and Spleen 

I prefer to describe these organs together because they 
are companion organs and we find that when one of them 

RIGHT LEFT 




Fig. 20. 

is seriously diseased the other also is more or less affected. 

These organs are the refineries of the body. The liver 
refines the end products of starchy and protein metabolism 
and discharges the waste materials thus extracted, partly 
in the form of bile, into the gall bladder and from there 
into the intestines, and partly in the form of urea which 
is excreted through the kidneys. 

It has been known to medical science that, in addition 
to serving as a burial ground for dead red corpuscles, the 



220 



IRIDIAGNOSIS 



spleen has much to do with the purification of the blood, 
but it was not clear just how this purification took place. 
Many theories have been advanced which have failed to 
withstand the tests of scientific research and clinical expe- 
rience. 

The new science of Natural Therapeutics for the first 
time gives a rational explanation of the true function of 
the spleen and of the lymph nodes in the lymphatic sys- 
tem. This new theory has been fully explained in Chapter 



RIGHT 



LEFT 







Fig. 21. 

IX, "Inflammation", Vol. 1, and also in connection with 
the study of various diseases. 

According to the new version the spleen and the lymph 
nodes serve to filter the mucoid pathogenic materials out 
of the blood stream and to condense them into little com- 
pact bodies, the so called leukocytes or phagocytes which 
have been mistaken for live, germ killing cells. 

The purpose of this condensation of pathogen, as else- 
where explained, is to render the blood serum more fluid 
and thus to facilitate its penetration into the intercellular 
spaces (osmosis) and thereby the nourishment of the cells 
by arterial blood and their drainage by way of the lym- 
phatic and venous systems. 



DISEASES OF THE VITAL OEGANS 221 

One of the principal reasons why Metchnikoff assumed 
that the leukocytes were germ killers was because they 
increased in numbers with the beginning of inflammation 
in any part of the system. He believed that they increased 
because more germ killers or phagocytes were needed to 
overcome the inflammation creating bacteria. The new 
science of healing proves that inflammation takes place 
on account of the increase in pathogen and leukocytes, 
which causes obstruction in the capillary circulation. 

A number of serious diseases did not confirm the Metch- 
nikoff theory. In miliary tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid 
fever, influenza and pernicious anemia the leukocytes are 
greatly reduced in numbers while the spleen and lymph 
nodes, the capillary circulation and the intercellular 
spaces are blocked with leukocytes and colloid (patho- 
genic) materials. (Fig. 12, p. 97, note lymphatic rosary.) 

The following explains this phenomenon also : In these 
diseases the amount of pathogen in the circulation is so 
great that the trabeculae of the spleen and of the lymph 
nodes become so engorged with mucoid materials that they 
cannot any longer continue the pathogen condensing and 
filtering process. The failure of the spleen and lymph 
nodes to continue their normal functions explains the de- 
crease of leukocytes in the circulation and the correspond- 
ing increase of colloid materials. 

The enlarged spleen and swollen lymph glands in quick 
consumption, malaria, typhoid fever, influenza and per- 
nicious anemia are in the same condition as a sieve that 
has become so clogged that it cannot any longer sift the 
solids from the fluids. 

This crowding of the lymph nodes in the neck with 
colloid matter can be frequently observed after the extir- 
pation of the tonsils and adenoids, which means suppres- 
sion of colloid elimination. When the lymph nodes are 
thus engorged with pathogenic materials the surgeon 



222 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

knows no better than to cut them out. The practitioner 
of Natural Therapeutics promotes the elimination of the 
excess of pathogenic materials from the circulation and 
thus relieves the engorged spleen and lymph nodules. 

The foregoing explains why in serious anemias and in 
the other diseases before mentioned we always find in the 
iris the signs of acute and subacute activity in the region 
of the spleen and usually also in the liver, because most 
of the diseases of the liver also originate in pathogenic 
engorgement. (Page 112, Series I.) 

When the colloid or mucoid obstruction in these organs 
continues, the acute and subacute stages are followed 
by chronic and finally chronic destructive stages, which 
is readily explained by the fact that constant pathogenic 
obstruction interferes with nourishment and drainage of 
the cells and thereby brings about deterioration, degen- 
eration and gradual destruction of the cells and tissues in 
the affected parts. (Page 112, Series III and IV, also fig. 
22-13, right and left.) 

Practically all diseases affecting a vital organ, whether 
it be the liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs, stomach or intes- 
tines, run the same course. Pathogenic obstruction first 
causes reaction by acute inflammatory processes. If these 
succeed in clearing the tissues of morbid materials, then 
follows recovery and normal function. (Page 112, Series 
I, B-E.) 

If, however, the pathogenic encumbrances increase and 
become permanent, then the system is no longer able to 
remove the obstructions by acute inflammatory effort and 
the result is chronic degeneration and destruction. (Fig. 
14, Series III, IV.) This again confirms the teachings 
of Natural Therapeutics, according to which acute disease 
is constructive or curative in tendency while the chronic 
stages are characterized by atrophy and destruction of 
tissues. 



DISEASES OF THE VITAL ORGANS 223 

The color of the lesions in the iris, whether they be 
white or greyish, brown or black, indicates what stage of 
pathogenic development the disease has reached. 

That the ancients understood the connection between 
diseases of the liver and spleen and emotional conditions 
is proved by the fact that the word "melancholia" means 
"black gall". Obstruction of the gall duct is frequently 
caused by the accumulation of colloid materials in the 
form of black, tarry accretions in the gall bladder. This 
interferes with the flow of the bile through the gall duct 



LEFT 




Fig. 22. 

into the intestine, which in turn causes the surging back 
of the bile into the blood stream. The absence of bile 
in the intestines results in constipation. Bile in the blood 
stream irritates brain and nerve matter, causing mental 
depression, melancholia or hysteria. (Fig. 17 R, p. 215.) 

I have been told on good authority that in over half 
the operations for gall stones no stones are found, but in 
place of them the black tarry substances before described 
— the "black gall" of the ancients. Such catarrhal ob- 
struction of the gall duct may cause distention, painful 
symptoms and a bilious condition of the system, similar to 
that caused by obstruction by stones. 



224 



IRIDIAGNOSIS 



Engorgement of the spleen and of the lymph nodes re- 
sults in excess of pathogenic materials in the circulation. 
These benumb brain and nerve matter, causing physical 
and mental lassitude, melancholia, insanity or, in acute 
diseases, mental depression, coma and death. (Fig. 18, 
p. 216.) 

Cases of Chronic Quinin Poisoning 

I examined Mr. L. shortly before he died of pernicious 
anemia. His eyes revealed an extraordinary combination 
of serious lesions and signs of drug poisons, as shown in 
Fig. 22. Lesions in the respective organs reveal a serious 



RIGHT 



LEFT 




Fig. 23. 

chronic destructive condition of the liver and gall bladder, 
accompanied by a collemic, engorged condition of the 
spleen. The brain region, as well as the areas of liver and 
spleen, show distinctly the color of quinin. In his youth 
he had suffered for several years with malaria, which was 
treated with quinin in the orthodox way. Since that time 
he had been affected by melancholia, indigestion, chronic 
constipation, neurasthenia and many other troubles, mak- 
ing his life a continual torture until death relieved him 
at the age of forty-two. His eyes also showed subacute 
lesions in the kidneys, several segments of nerve rings, 



DISEASES OF THE VITAL OKGANS 



225 



a chronic lesion in the right ear and a closed lesion in the 
left knee. The pancreas area shows a large psora spot. 

The brain region also revealed the presence of bromids 
and coal tar products which had been administered to 
suppress the headaches and insomnia caused by quinin 
poisoning. 

Fig. 23 shows a severe lesion in the spleen and a chronic 
catarrhal condition of the lungs. The patient had con- 
tracted "swamp fever' ' in South America. After he re- 
turned to the United States this was suppressed with 



RIGHT 



LEFT 




Fig. 24. 

quinin and arsenic. The pathogenic condition of the blood 
caused by the diseased spleen and liver was followed by 
incipient tuberculosis of the lungs. 

Allopathic physicians admit that tuberculosis is much 
more dangerous when accompanied by spleen disease. Our 
theory of leukocytosis explains why this is so. When the 
circulation is saturated with excessive amounts of patho- 
gen this will engorge and obstruct the tissues of the lungs 
and thus prepare the soil for tubercular processes. This 
patient made a perfect recovery under natural living and 
treatment. 

In practically all cases where patients told me that 
since they had the grippe they were troubled more or less 



226 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

with headaches, nervous irritability, insomnia, indigestion, 
bone aches, neuritis, physical and mental weakness, etc., 
I found in the iris the signs of quinin, indicating that the 
chronic after effects of influenza are not due to the dis- 
ease itself but to its suppression by quinin and other 
poisons. This is also proved by the fact that in cases 
where influenza is treated by natural methods such chronic 
after effects never develop. Quinin shows plainly in the 
brain region. 

Diseases of the Kidneys 

The kidneys are especially prone to disease conditions 
because they are the filters of the system, whose function 




Fig. 25. 

it is to eliminate from the blood stream all sorts of waste 
and morbid materials. As long as the system is in fairly 
good condition and the kidneys have nothing to cope with 
but the normal forms of waste matter such as urea and 
salts, they will remain in a healthy condition, but when- 
ever they are forced to eliminate large amounts of patho- 
genic materials, earthy matter, uric acid and ptomains, 
bile salts, etc., the tender tissues of these organs become 
irritated and inflamed. This leads to morbid changes 



DISEASES OF THE VITAL ORGANS 



227 



which in time render them incapable of performing their 
functions. 

When acute and subacute irritation by poisonous ex- 
cretions continues for too long a time, the tissues of the 
kidneys undergo degenerative changes. Microscopic ex- 
amination of the urine then reveals kidney cells, tubules, 
casts, leukocytes, red blood corpuscles, pus cells and other 
debris of inflammatory breakdown. 

Fig. 24 shows both kidneys in a subacute condition. 
That this was not primary disease is shown by the serious 




Fig. 26. 

lesions in the pancreas and liver which were associated 
with diabetes in the advanced stages. There also showed 
in both eyes the signs of acute inflammation in the blad- 
der. The stomach and bowel region revealed the dark 
signs of chronic catarrh, indicating an atrophic condition 
of the membranes of stomach and intestines, which re- 
sulted in malnutrition and systemic poisoning. 

The history of the patient revealed that he had been 
suffering since early youth with malnutrition and consti- 
pation, which I traced to the use of paragoric and cathar- 
tics. The mother of the patient told me that she had been 
in the habit of giving her children those wonderful ' ' sooth- 



228 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

ing syrups" and "innocent laxatives" so as not to be 
disturbed at night or when engaged in her household 
duties. In the meantime the laudanum in the paregoric 
and the calomel was benumbing and parlyzing the liver and 
intestinal membranes of her children. At the age of twenty 
the patient developed diabetes. This was treated with 
the ordinary allopathic remedies, but instead of curing 
the disease the poison treatment resulted in chronic in- 
flammation and finally in breakdown of the kidneys, ac- 
companied by the discharge of albumen in addition to 
sugar. The patient died at the age of thirtythree, shortly 
after I had made the diagnosis from the iris of the eye. 

Fig. 25 shows chronic, destructive kidney lesions in 
both eyes. In the right kidney region as well as in the 
right back we notice large itch spots. There is a closed 
lesion in the left kidney and an iodin sign in the pancreas. 
The brain region shows the signs of acute inflammation. 

The patient, when I examined her, was in the last stages 
of Bright 's disease. The cause of the trouble is revealed 
by the itch spots. She remembered distinctly that she 
had had the itch several times in her youth and that it was 
suppressed with the usual remedies — sulphur and molasses 
and blue ointment (mercury). She had suffered from 
weakness of the kidneys and bladder ever since. The poi- 
son sign in the pancreas accounts for the presence of 
sugar. 

The white lines all through the iris and the heavy nerve 
rings indicate irritation of the nervous system through 
uric acid and other pathogenic materials. In this case 
the concentration of the psoric taint in the kidneys as 
the result of the suppression of scabies ("seven year 
itch") was undoubtedly responsible for the gradual break- 
down of these organs. 



DISEASES OF THE VITAL ORGANS 229 

Stones in the Kidneys 

(Fig. 26.) These eyes indicate plainly a uric acid dia- 
thesis. The irritation caused by this systemic poison 
throughout the entire system is indicated by the white 
lines all over the iris, giving it a grey appearance. Irri- 
tation of the nervous system by uric acid and other sys- 
temic poisons is also indicated by the many prominent 
nerve rings. Uric acid in this case resulted in the form- 
ing of a stone in the left kidney. This was removed by 
a surgical operation four years before the patient came to 
us for treatment. Two years after the operation another 
stone had formed in the right kidney. Mr. S. told me 
that the new stone in the right kidney was giving him 
much more trouble than the previous one in the left kid- 
ney ; that for two years he had traveled from one hospital 
or sanitarium to another, his ailments growing worse all 
the time. 

When one of a pair of organs is affected by constitu- 
tional disease and is removed by the surgeon's knife, the 
disease soon after manifests in the companion organ. This 
is of such common occurrence that anyone who runs may 
read, but the surgeons cannot or do not want to see that 
constitutional disease is never cured by the mutilation or 
extirpation of an affected organ. Common sense reason- 
ing would tell us that the only way to meet the problem is 
to cure the constitutional disease back of the trouble — 
in the case under discussion, the uric acid diathesis. This 
can easily be accomplished by the natural methods of 
living and of treatment. 

Before this patient came to us he developed at intervals 
of two weeks a violent inflammation of the affected kid- 
ney. This was accompanied by high fever and excruciat- 
ing pains. The attacks, which were undoubtedly precipi- 
tated by irritation due to the stone in the kidney, would 



230 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

last about a week and then subside, to be followed after 
another interval of two weeks by another attack. 

After he came under our care and treatment he had 
only one of these violent collicky attacks. After that he 
experienced only a few slight aggravations and improved 
rapidly. He left our institution five months after his 
arrival and, according to last reports, had not experienced 
another attack of kidney inflammation, but I learned from 
his friends that since that time he has been troubled a 
great deal with acute inflammatory rheumatism, which is 
to be accounted for by the fact that he was not at all strict 
in his adherence to the natural regimen of living. X-ray 
pictures which were taken just before his arrival and at 
the time of his departure showed that the stone had actu- 
ally diminished one eighth of an inch in diameter in va- 
rious directions. 

The acute inflammatory attacks subsided so quickly be- 
cause raw food diet and fasting reduced the hyperacidity 
of his system very rapidly, thus lessening the irritation 
caused by the stone and the pathogenic condition of the 
blood. The fact that the stone considerably diminished in 
size in five months' time proves that these calculi form 
only in blood highly charged with acid materials, and 
that they gradually dissolve under a normal alkaline con- 
dition of the vital fluids and eliminative treatment. 

The digestive organs reveal a chronic catarrhal condi- 
tion, also signs of iodin ; in the outer margin of the iris, 
deposits of salts of sodium and magnesium; subacute ca- 
tarrhal signs in bronchi, throat and nasal passages. The 
chronic lesion in the rectum stands for hemorrhoids. 

Respiratory Organs 
(Fig. 27, p. 231) 
These are the eyes of a young lady who died from pthisis 
of the lungs at the age of twentyfour. I examined her 



DISEASES OF THE VITAL ORGANS 



231 



eyes three months before her death, when it had become 
too late to save her life. The eyes showed the following 
lesions and other abnormalities. 

One of the most prominent features is a very heavy 
dark scurf rim which extends nearly uniformly all around 
the iris. This type of all-around-the-iris scurf rim has 
been called by iridologists the hereditary scurf rim be- 
cause it forms early in childhood in the iris of infants who 




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Fig. 27. 



were heavily encumbered from birth and who were sub- 
jected to suppressive treatment for skin eruptions and 
other acute infantile ailments. The application of mer- 
curial and other metallic ointments also results in the 
appearance of a broad black scurf rim all around the iris 
because these metallic poisons effectually deaden the or- 
ganic structures of the cuticle. 

The " acquired' ' scurf rim is one which forms from 
infancy on as a result of hot bathing, coddling, dense, 
heavy clothing, suppressive treatment of skin eruptions. 
The acquired scurf rim does not appear uniformly all 
around the iris but shows mainly in the form of half -moons 
in the outer segments of the iris. (Fig. 13, p. 100.) 

The inactive, atrophic condition of the skin indicated 



232 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

by the heavy scurf rim predisposed the child to catarrhal 
conditions which manifested as whooping cough, frequent 
colds, profuse catarrhal elimination from the nasal pas- 
sages, chronic tonsilitis and enlargement of the adenoids. 
At the age of four the tonsils and adenoids were extir- 
pated. 

Suppression of scrofulous elimination through these 
channels intensified elimination through the nasal pas- 
sages. The nasal membranes became congested, the tur- 
binated bones soft and swollen, this obstructed the air 
passages and the child became a mouth breather. 

The nasal passages were treated with antiseptic sprays, 
polypi were removed and the turbinated bones reduced by 
the knife. This treatment resulted in destroying the nasal 
membranes, which suppressed the local catarrhal condi- 
tions but drove the impurities in process of elimination 
deeper into the system. Next the lymphatic glands in 
the neck became engorged with pathogenic materials. Two 
years after removal of the tonsils the lymphatic glands on 
both sides of the neck were extirpated. 

About the same time the child was vaccinated before 
entering public school. This was followed by eczematous 
sores which persisted for several months and were finally 
cured (?) by ointments and internal medication. All of 
this served to intensify the scurf rim. 

From that time the child was never well and became 
pale, anemic, weakly and listless, unable to romp and 
play like other children — easily tired in school, and always 
backward in her studies. The treatment for this anemic 
condition was "good nourishing " food — that is, plenty 
of meat, soups, eggs and other heavy protein and starchy 
foods, which only served to increase the pathogenic en- 
cumbrances in her system. The principal medical remedies 
were arsenic (Fowler's solution), strychnin and iron. 

Nature next tried to eliminate the pathogenic encum- 



DISEASES OF THE VITAL ORGANS 233 

brances through the bowels, which gave rise to periodic 
diarrheas. These were suppressed with laudanum and 
other opiates. In this fashion the child worried through 
the years of childhood and early youth, the parents in 
the meantime trying many specialists and " cures". De- 
fective skin action and excess of protein and starchy 
foods intensified the pathogenic obstruction in the tissues 
and resulted in carbon dioxide poisoning. This prevented 
the entrance of oxygen into the tissues, which meant con- 
stantly increasing oxygen starvation. This, together with 
pathogenic obstruction in the lung tissues, brought on 
constant catarrhal elimination in the form of coughing 
and copious expectoration. These persisted in spite of 
suppressive treatment by means of opiates and coal tar 
products, resulting gradually in the breaking down and 
caseous degeneration of the lung tissues, which in turn 
prepared a luxuriant soil for the tubercle bacilli. She 
was then sent to a tuberculosis camp, but the effects of 
the outdoor life were spoiled by the stuffing with large 
amounts of eggs, milk and other pathogen producing 
foods. Death brought relief from her great suffering in 
her twenty-fourth year. 

The eyes of this patient revealed a complete record of 
her progressive ailments. The areas of nose and throat 
showed chronic catarrhal signs and a few small closed 
lesions which indicated the destructive and suppressive 
treatment of the acute catarrhal conditions in the nose, 
throat, tonsils and adenoids. The neck revealed the ef- 
fects of extirpation of the lymph glands. The fields of 
stomach and bowels to the last showed white, indicating 
acute catarrhal activity of these organs characterized by 
constant, severe diarrhea. 

The areas of the lungs also show the white signs of 
acute and subacute inflammation and several dark spots 
indicating caverns in the upper lobes of the lungs. It 



234 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

must be remembered that in such cases it is not only the 
actual destruction of tissues which brings about a fatal 
termination but also the pathogenic obstruction in the 
still active parts of the lungs. 

The white flakes of arsenic are plainly visible in the 
outer portions of the iris and in the brain region the heavy 
grey veil of coal tar products. There are also several 
iodin spots. This poison had been applied to the throat 
in a vain endeavor to "dry up" the swollen lymphatic 
glands. One of these spots was located in the right kidney, 
which showed signs of subacute inflammation. 



CHAPTER XXI 

CHRONIC DISEASES— THEIR SIGNS IN THE IRIS 
A Case of Chronic Asthma 

(Fig. 29, p. 237) 

Mrs. V. was brought to us five years ago, in a dying 
condition. She had been troubled for twenty years with 
asthma, digestive disorders and many other ailments. 

When she came to us the mucoid discharges from her 
throat were so copious and she was so emaciated that she 
presented the appearance of one laboring in the last stages 
of consumption. 

For several months it seemed that the fatal crisis might 
come any day. The microscope showed some tubercle 
bacilli in the sputum, but not enough to make it a tuber- 
cular case. 

After several months of natural treatment improvement 
came slowly but steadily. The healing crisis took the form 
of acute catarrhal elimination accompanied by low fever. 

After seven months treatment she left for home in good 
condition. She felt fairly well for eight months; then 
overwork brought on another breakdown, and she returned 
to us for treatment. 

The asthmatic attacks were very distressing, and she 
suffered greatly from an atrophic condition of the intes- 
tines — indigestion and malnutrition. For three months 
she could take very little food — not more than a few 
spoonfuls of milk or soft boiled egg with juicy fruit and 
fruit juices a day. 

When conditions in the alimentary tract had greatly 

235 



236 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

improved a serious crisis came in the form of an acute 
attack of pneumonia and pleurisy. In her already weak- 
ened condition this developed into a battle royal for life, 
but, as in all true healing crises, the healing forces came 
out victorious and from that time on she improved rapidly. 

After this last inflammatory crisis in the respiratory 
organs the asthma disappeared entirely. 

Mrs. V. told us that her troubles had started in child- 
hood with stubborn constipation, indigestion and malnu- 
trition. For this she had received allopathic treatment. 

She remembered that she was given considerable calomel 
for the liver and bowels, and strychnin and arsenic as 
tonics to aid digestion. 

When I first examined the patient her eyes distinctly 
showed the strychnin wheel in the stomach and the ar- 
senic flakes in the outer iris, especially in the lungs. 

These poisons, together with autointoxication and mal- 
nutrition due to her digestive troubles, probably brought 
on the asthmatic condition which followed in the wake of 
the medical treatment. 

At the beginning of the asthmatic symptoms Nature 
tried to relieve the respiratory organs from the morbid 
encumbrances by a vigorous attack of pneumonia and 
pleurisy. This condition also was treated in the regular 
way with drugs and ice packs. From that time on the 
asthmatic attacks increased in frequency and severity. 

In spite of, or probably as a result of, the continued 
medical treatment by the best specialists in Canada and 
the United States, her condition grew worse from year to 
year until life became a continual torture. 

The sequence of healing crises, as well as her history 
and the records in the iris, revealed the causal chain in 
her case. While undergoing regeneration under the nat- 
ural treatment she had to retrace the old acute diseases — 
ihe ailments that had been maltreated and suppressed in 



CHEONIC DISEASES 237 

the past. The chronic conditions in the digestive organs, 
lungs and pleura had to become acute and run their nat- 
ural courses before they could be permanently eradicated. 
For the last few years she has been practically free from 
the old complaints. 

When I first examined her the areas of stomach and 
bowels were dark brown with many black spokes indi- 
cating an atrophic condition of the membranes and con- 
siderable destruction. The stomach revealed the strych- 
nin wheel, while the intestines showed several iodin spots. 

RIGHT LEFT 



Fig. 29. 

She had been painted with iodin during the attack of 
ipleurisy. 

The bronchi, lungs and pleura showed chronic signs of 
the third and fourth stages. The brain region displayed 
the grey, mercurial crescent ; the outer margin of the iris, 
the whitish flakes of arsenic. The entire iris was over- 
spread with the greyish film of coal tar products. The 
scurf rim was heavy and continuous all around the iris; 
the lymphatic rosary also was very heavy, indicating the 
engorged and inactive condition of the lymphatic glands. 

The iris pictures on this page show the appearance of 
her eyes when she first came to us five years ago. 



238 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

The right iris shows a lesion in the region of the knee. 
In her girlhood the knee was injured by a fall on the ice. 
The right liver area shows the sign of subacute inflamma- 
tion. The chronic signs in anus and rectum, left eye, stand 
for external and internal hemorrhoids. 

At the time of writing this most of the signs just de- 
scribed have disappeared and the iris presents a clear, 
blue appearance. Of the drug signs only traces of mer- 
cury and iodin are visible. 

A Typical Case of Psora 

(Fig. 28, page 239) 

When I first met Mr. B. three years ago he had a growth 
on the left side of his throat the size of a large walnut. 
It had a soft, red spot in the center which seemed ready to 
open. Several surgeons had diagnosed the case as true 
cancer and recommended immediate surgical removal. 

The eyes of this patient at the time of my first exami- 
nation, though apparently brown, showed on close exam- 
ination a blue background. The brown, heaviest in the 
region of stomach and intestines, was superimposed. 

When I mentioned this, he answered his mother 
had told him that in infancy his eyes were blue, but they 
had darkened and become brown when he was a few 
years old. 

The scurf rim was heavy and dark except in the brain 
region. The darkening of the eyes and the formation of 
the scurf rim must have been caused through the sup- 
pressive treatment of skin eruptions, but this he did not 
remember and, his mother being dead, it was impossible to 
secure information on this point. 

At the age of seven he suffered with inflammatory rheu- 
matism. This was treated by an allopathic physician. He 
remembered that he was confined to bed for several 



CHRONIC DISEASES 



23S 



months and that he did not fully recover from the attack 
for six months. 

Two years later he was again prostrated with the same 
trouble and this time also he was not able to attend school 
for over six months. Since then he had been troubled 
periodically with rheumatism. 

The treatment always consisted mainly in the adminis- 
tration of salycilates. This accounted for the heavy white 
ring in the outer margin of the iris, which stands for salts 




Fig. 28. 



of sodium, magnesium, potassium and bromin, the bromin 
being more confined to the brain region. 

We always find that people who have taken salycilates 
repeatedly and in considerable quantities exhibit in the 
digestive area of the iris the brown and blackish discolor- 
ations indicating atrophy of the membranes of the gastro- 
intestinal tract. This patient was no exception to the rule. 

On being questioned he admitted that since the first 
attack of rheumatism he had suffered from constipation 
and indigestion. These conditions had grown worse after 
the second attack and had become more chronic with ad- 
vancing years. He reported that for many years he had 



240 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

never had a movement of the bowels without resorting to 
laxatives or enemas. 

At the age of eleven he "caught the seven year itch", 
as he called it. This received the regular sulphur and 
molasses and blue ointment treatment. It proved a stub- 
born case and persisted in spite of drastic treatment for 
about six weeks. 

Suppression of the scabies showed in the iris by several 
large itch spots, one in the right groin and one in the 
region of left neck, and another in right lower back. Sev- 
eral smaller itch spots showed in the intestinal tract. 

During his childhood he was vaccinated a few times and 
received several antitoxin injections for immunization. 
This addition of disease matter to his system undoubtedly 
added to the vitiated condition of his vital fluids and 
helped to darken and discolor the iris. 

From childhood up he was troubled, as before stated, 
with stubborn constipation, indigestion and malnutrition 
due to the atonic condition of the intestinal membranes. 
Catarrhal elimination through the membranous linings of 
the nasal passages, throat and bronchi endeavored to re- 
lieve the morbid condition of his system, but he did his 
best to prevent this by the use of cold and catarrh cures. 

After his thirtieth year the rheumatism gradually be- 
came more chronic. Pathogenic obstruction in the system, 
together with the effects of the salycilates on the heart 
weakened that organ and caused it to dilate, which re- 
sulted in leakage of the mitral valve (Fig. 28, p. 239). 

At the age of fortyone a swelling appeared on the left 
side of the neck. It was treated first with iodin; then 
several doctors pronounced it incipient cancer and recom- 
mended immediate surgical treatment. The patient balked 
at this for some time. When the further development of 
the growth left no doubt about its being of a malignant 
nature, he came to me for consultation and examination. 



CHRONIC DISEASES 241 

The first look in the iris revealed the large itch spot in 
the region of the left neck (Fig. 28). I explained to him 
what it meant — that the psoric taint together with general 
autointoxication of his system was undoubtedly responsi- 
ble for the tumor. After a complete tracing of his ail- 
ments by the records in the iris from infancy on, he at 
once grasped the reasonableness of my explanation and 
submitted to thorough natural treatment. 

A description of the many crises he passed through and 
their significance would fill a good sized volume. Suffice 
it to say that within two months after the commencement 
of treatment his bowels acted freely, and the skin and 
kidneys had become more alive and active. 

The first crisis came in the form of acute catarrhal elim- 
ination, which lasted four weeks. The thirteenth week, 
the second crisis period, brought a severe attack of acute 
rheumatism. This lasted for about three weeks and was 
followed in the fourth month by fiery, itchy eruptions all 
over the body. Several eczematous patches appeared on 
the abdomen and discharged an acrid, watery fluid. The 
patient one day exhibited these ugly looking sores to a 
visiting physician who was interested in our work. The 
doctor could not understand why the patient seemed to 
be so much elated over his affliction until I explained to 
him that I had predicted the appearance of itchy eruptions 
as a form of healing crisis. 

I also explained the significance of the itch spots ; that 
they stood for suppressed psora and that this constitu- 
tional taint would have to work out through acute elimi- 
nation before a reduction of the malignant growth could 
be expected. 

It is now three years since the patient ceased taking 
treatment. The itchy eruptions appeared and disappeared 
periodically, extending over a period of six months. In 
the meantime the tumor in the neck softened and dimin- 



242 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

ished in size slowly but steadily. As the vital fluids be- 
came pure and normal the food was taken away from the 
parasitic growth and pure blood and lymph gradually 
absorbed its pathogenic materials. 

During the crisis periods the patient underwent three 
fasts of seven days, two weeks, and four weeks respect- 
ively. These, together with strict raw food and at times 
dry food diet, aided greatly in purifying the system of 
its pathogenic encumbrances. 

Fig. 28 shows the records in his eyes as they appeared 
when I first examined him. Note the heavy scurf rim, 
partly covered by the salt ring, the dark brown discolora- 
tion and black spokes in the gastro-intestinal area, stand- 
ing for the atonic condition of the membranous linings 
of these organs caused by salycilates. The liver also showa 
dark, indicating a sluggish condition. The itch spots in 
groin, neck and intestines are plainly visible. They were 
dark brown in color, indicating that the suppression had 
taken place many years previously. The broad white 
ring in the outer iris stands for deposits of salycilates. A 
heart lesion is plainly visible close to the sympathetic 
wreath in the left eye. (Area 10.) 

The upper part of the iris in the brain region shows the 
greyish veil of coal tar products. Iodin is visible in left 
throat. The left leg had been crushed in a railway acci- 
dent, which is indicated by a diagonal closed lesion. 

Diabetes Mellitus 
(Figs. 13-18-22-24.) 

The causes and rational treatment of diabetes mellitus 
will be described in Vol. V of this series. In the following 
I shall confine myself to a description of the signs of the 
disease in the iris. 

From the viewpoint of Natural Therapeutics we distin- 



CHKONIC DISEASES 243 

guish two forms of diabetes — the functional and the or- 
ganic. The functional form of the disease is caused by 
pathogenic (mucoid) obstruction in the tissues of the body. 
Pathogenic obstruction prevents absorption of sugar by 
the cells in the muscular tissues and its combustion inci- 
dental to the performance of muscular labor. 

Under consumption causes excessive accumulation of 
sugar in the circulation, and excretion through the kid- 
neys. If this continues for a considerable length of time, 
it results in the degeneration of these organs through over- 
work and irritation by the sugar and poisonous by-prod- 
ucts of glycosuria such as indican, acetone, diacetic acid, 
ptomains, leukomains and other pathogenic substances. 
From this we see that affections of the kidneys in diabetes 
are, as a rule, of a secondary nature, not primary. It ex- 
plains why the most serious chronic lesions appear in the 
pancreas, liver, stomach and intestines, while the kidneys 
in the initial stages of the disease exhibit signs of acute 
irritation. 

When the tendency to sugar excretion is due to patho- 
genic (mucoid) obstruction in the tissues of the body, then 
the lower half of the iris usually appears darkened while 
the upper half shows whitish. This indicates that the 
circulation is impeded in the surface, extremities and mus- 
cular tissues of the body, while congestion exists in the 
larger internal arterial blood vessels in the brain, lungs 
and heart, giving rise to high blood pressure. In the ad- 
vanced stages of the disease this is followed by weakness 
of the heart muscles or atony of the cardiac and vasomotor 
centers resulting in low blood pressure. The intestinal 
area is usually very much distended and shows dark dis- 
colorations. 

The organic form of the disease is due in most cases to 
disease of the pancreas. The liver is the sugar refinery 
and sugar storage house of the body. During periods of 



244 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

excessive production and under consumption it stores 
sugar in the form of glycogen and releases it when needed 
as fuel material for the production of heat and muscular 
energy. The sugar liberating activity of the liver is regu- 
lated and retarded by certain as yet obscure secretions of 
the pancreas ; in other words, the pancreas in this respect 
acts as a brake on the liver. If the brake or regulator is 
out of order the liver issues more sugar than needed. The 
excess accumulates in the circulation and gives rise to 
glycosuria or diabetes mellitus. 

Abnormal conditions of the pancreas are plainly visible 
in the iris in a triangular projection from duodenum and 
cecum. If the organ is normal there is nothing to be seen 
in the corresponding region of the iris. If it is abnor- 
mal we notice a triangular bulge of the intestinal wreath 
projecting into areas 13 and 14, right eye. The typical ap- 
pearance of this sign is illustrated in Figs. 13-18-22-24. 

In this triangle we find portrayed the various signs of 
pancreatic diseases. In many cases I have observed the 
signs of acute or chronic inflammation; in others, the 
signs of suppressed itch. (Color plate, page 116, fig. c.) In 
some instances drug poisoning or suppression of psoric 
skin diseases dated back to early infancy. Frequently such 
patients strenuously deny having had itchy eruptions or 
eczemata or having taken the drug shown in the iris, but 
careful inquiry from relatives or the family physician 
elicits the fact that the drug had been administered for 
some infantile ailment, or the skin eruptions had been sup- 
pressed during the first years of life. It takes but very 
little poison to affect the tender organism of an infant. In 
many instances a few doses may be sufficient to affect an 
individual for life. 

The diagnosis from the iris is especially valuable for 
detecting diseases of the pancreas. Though frequently 
diseased, it is hardly ever mentioned in allopathic and 



CHRONIC DISEASES 245 

osteopathic diagnoses. The pancreas is overlapped by the 
stomach and intestines, therefore if it gives any subjective 
symptoms of discomfort or pain, these are usually attrib- 
uted to affections of the stomach or of the intestines, while 
the signs in the pancreatic triangle in the iris reveal the 
true nature of the trouble. 

Bright^ Disease 

Albuminuria as well as diabetes is primarily not a kid- 
ney disease. Both ailments may be caused by degenera- 
tive changes in the kidneys, the filter organs, resulting in 
leakage of sugar and albumen from the blood stream. 
But in the majority of cases the trouble is due to abnormal 
constitutional conditions. As explained under diabetes 
these may be functional or organic. 

The initial stages of Bright 's disease are usually caused 
by pathogenic obstruction of the capillary circulation and 
intercellular spaces. This interferes with the osmotic 
processes of nutrition and drainage. It prevents the con- 
sumption of proteid food materials and causes their ac- 
cumulation in the blood stream, necessitating their dis- 
charge through the kidneys. 

Pathogenic obstruction is gradually followed by degen- 
eration and decomposition of the proteid constituents of 
cells and tissues and their absorption by the blood and 
lymph streams. The destruction of cellular protoplasm is 
undoubtedly hastened by systemic acids and by drug poi- 
sons, and as it proceeds the functional stages of the disease 
change into the organic or destructive stages involving 
also the kidneys. 

Pathogenic obstruction is indicated in the iris by gen- 
eral darkening of the color, heavy scurf rim, white signs 
of acute inflammatory processes, darkening of the digest- 
ive area, nerve rings, etc. Organic destruction of tissues 
and organs caused by pathogenic obstruction and by the 



246 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

action of systemic and drug poisons is indicated by the 
signs of the third and fourth stages of disease. 

Fig. 25, p. 226, shows chronic deterioration in both kid- 
neys in a case of albuminuria in the advanced stages. 

Diseases of the Sexual Organs 

The female sex organs are much more complicated and 
therefore more prone to disease than the male organs. 
Most of the ordinary diseases of the female sex organs have 
been described in Chapter XVII, entitled "Woman's Suf- 
fering' ', in Vol. I of this series. In this chapter I shall con- 
fine myself to describing those diseases of the sex organs 
which are directly or indirectly due to venereal or gonor- 
rheal infection.* 

The allopathic school teaches that these diseases are in 
themselves of a chronic, destructive nature, and that their 
progress must be stopped as soon as possible by local and 
constitutional treatment, by means of drugs, cauterizations, 
surgical operations, etc. These teachings and practices 
are erroneous and destructive. We have proved in many 
hundreds of cases that these diseases are, in themselves, of 
the acute inflammatory type, that when naturally treated 
they run a normal course through the five stages of inflam- 
mation as described in Vol. I, and then leave the system in a 
cleaner and more normal condition than it was before the 
infection. 

Not a single one of these cases treated by us (before sup- 
pression had taken place) during the last seventeen years 
has exhibited secondary or tertiary symptoms. As I have 
explained many times, it is the suppression of these diseases 
during the acute and subacute stages by the allopathic 
treatment that creates the chronic stages and loads the sys- 
tem with destructive drug poisons which are responsible 



*This subject has been treated more fully by the author in a booklet 
entitled "The Black Stork". 



CHRONIC DISEASES 247 

for the so called tertiary stages of syphilis and the worst 
kinds of other chronic destructive diseases. 

Allopathy looks upon syphilis as more serious in its after 
effects than gonorrhea. Practical experience teaches us 
that the reverse is true. The average gonorrheal case ex- 
hibits much more painful symptoms and is more dangerous 
to the neighboring organs, as well as more destructive in 
its chronic after effects than syphilis. The only reason why 
syphilis is followed after a lapse of years by locomotor 
ataxia, paralysis agitans, paresis, and a multitude of other 
so called tertiary diseases is, that slow acting but power- 
ful, insidious poisons are used for its suppression. 

The gonorrheal acute catarrh of the membranous linings 
of the urethra and the syphilitic ulcer are slightly differing 
manifestations of the same venereal disease. This was 
acknowledged by Dr. Frankel, an allopathic specialist and 
writer on sexual diseases. He wrote : ' ' The nature of the 
contagious poison is of minor importance. Everything de- 
pends on the more or less favorable soil the poison finds for 
development in the body." 

It happens that a gonorrheal infection causes syphilitic 
symptoms or what is called a mixed infection of both 
gonorrheal and syphilitic symptoms and vice versa. Na- 
ture Cure physicians claim that persons with good skin 
action (light scurf rim) are more prone to the gonorrheal 
form of the disease, while those with low vitality, poor 
skin action and of psorie constitution tend to the syphilitic 
form of the disease. This I have been able to verify in 
many instances. 

In "The Black Stork" I quote at length from the writ- 
ings of Dr. Joseph Hermann, who has proved, not only 
theoretically but by thirty years of actual practice in one 
of the greatest hospitals for venereal diseases in the world, 
that neither gonorrhea nor syphilis are constitutional dis- 
eases ; that they are easily curable in the acute stages by 



248 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

natural methods of living and treatment; and that all 
chronic and congenital after effects can be wholly avoided. 
Fig. 30 illustrates a typical case of gonorrhea sup- 
pressed by injections of metallic poisons and internal medi- 
cation. Area 20, urethra, and area 22, prostate gland, 
show the signs of subacute and chronic inflammation. As 
in many other cases of gonorrheal suppression the patient 
is now suffering from chronic prostatitis, and the urine 
has to be removed by catheters. His allopathic advisers in- 



t&$ti% 




Fig. 80. 

sisted upon immediate operation. This would have meant 
greater suffering and the beginning of the end. 

The suppression drove the disease taints and drug 
poisons into the bladder and kidneys; as a result the 
urine shows pus and albumin. Ever since the disease en- 
tered upon the subacute and chronic stages the patient 
has been impotent. This is indicated by the chronic sign 
in area 15, testes. During the subacute stages the right 
wrist became affected with gonorrheal arthritis; this also 
was suppressed and left the joint in an ankylosed condi- 
tion (area 12). It is a peculiarity of gonorrheal arthritis 
that it affects only one joint at a time. The gonorrheal 
taint in the system will aggravate any tendency to rheu- 



CHRONIC DISEASES 249 

matism and make it more malignant. This type we call 
gonorrheal rheumatism. 

Suppression of the acute catarrhal elimination from 
the urethra resulted in chronic catarrh of the nasal pas- 
sages and the bronchi. This, in turn, was treated and 
suppressed for years with coal tar poisons. As a result of 
long continued drug poisoning, especially by salicylates 
administered for rheumatism and arthritis, the area of 
stomach and bowels shows chronic catarrhal signs, indi- 




cating indigestion, chronic constipation, gas formation and 
malnutrition. Of specal interest in this case is the quinin 
sign in the brain region especially prominent in area 2, 
right cerebellum, which is the seat of sex life, the emo- 
tional nature, etc. The patient confided to me that from 
early youth he had suffered with excessive excitation of 
the sex impulse. Undoubtedly this was caused by quinin 
taken in considerable quantities for chills and fever during 
his sixth and seventh years. 

Fig. 31 illustrates the right eye of a woman fifty years 
old, who, at the age of twenty-five, contracted a syphilitic 
infection from her husband. The doctor who treated her, 
in order to shield the husband, did not inform her of the 



250 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

true nature of the disease. Not until she studied natural 
methods of healing and became a drugless healer herself 
did she find out the true nature of her ailments. When 
she came to me for treatment she exhibited a hole in the 
palate as large as a dime, which communicated with the 
nasal passages. She could not speak, nor could she take 
solid food because it entered the nasal passages. This 
lesion did not develop until many years after the syphilitic 
ulcer had been suppressed with mercury and potassium 
iodid. The inguinal glands and ovaries had been affected 
at the time by swellings (bubo) and inflammation. When 
I examined her, both areas (15, 18) in the iris showed 
chronic signs and a large iodin spot in the right bladder. 
The patient informed me that after the suppression of the 
original acute condition she had lost sexual sensation. 
The fields of the lower extremities reveal the signs of sub- 
acute inflammation. This was treated for years as sciatic 
rheumatism with salicylates and painkillers (narcotics 
and opiates). Subsequent developments showed that the 
supposed sciatic rheumatism marked the first stages of 
locomotor ataxia caused by the action of mercury and 
potassium iodid on the lower spinal cord. The upper part 
of the iris shows distinctly the greenish crescent of mer- 
cury. Iodin is visible in areas 28, 23, 10. Area 29, neck, 
shows signs of subacute inflammation due to engorge- 
ment and inflammation of the lymphatic glands. 

The brain region exhibits acute signs in cerebrum and 
cerebellum. The accompanying symptoms are frequent 
headaches and dizziness. The patient under natural treat- 
ment experienced great improvement. The hole in the 
palate healed over perfectly within four months time. 
Her general condition improved sufficiently within six 
months that she was able to resume her work as drugless 
practitioner. 



CHAPTER XXII 

THE DUCTLESS GLANDS AND THEIR SECRETIONS 

(Fig. 33, p. 252) 

The secretions of the ductless glands are called internal 
secretions because they are not carried to the exterior by 
an open duct, but are poured directly into the blood or 
lymph. 

Certain glands with ducts have also internal secretions, 
as for instance, the pancreas. In fact, it is claimed by 
some authorities that every specialized tissue in the body 
produces secretions which in some way influence the vital 
activities. From this it becomes apparent that internal 
secretion is one of Nature's methods of coordinating the 
activities of the various parts of a complex organism. 
The more easily understood coordination, by means of the 
nervous system, is of later development in the evolution- 
ary process. 

In the following paragraphs I shall briefly describe the 
locations and functions of the ductless glands, and follow 
this with a summary of the teachings of Dr. Charles E. de 
Sajous concerning the coordination and function of these 
interesting organs. 

1. Pineal Gland. This is a small body projecting from 
the roof of the third ventricle at the base of the brain, 
beneath the corpus eallosum. It is glandular in structure, 
reaching maximum development at about the seventh 
year. After this period and particularly after puberty it 
degenerates into fibrous tissue. It contains a few atro- 
phied nerve cells without axons. 

251 



252 



IRIDIAGNOSIS 



PINEAL 
PITUITARY 



THYMU* 




/■^---PANCEtAS 



OVARY 



Fig. 38. 



DUCTLESS GLANDS 253 

Occultists claim that all through life this gland is in 
active communication with the pituitary glands; that, in 
fact, the life impulses pass from the pineal gland into the 
pituitary bodies and from these and the nervous system, 
all through the organism. 

Disease of this gland results in a too rapid development 
of the reproductive organs, accompanied by mental pre- 
cocity and excessive growth of the bony structures. From 
this it appears that the gland has a restraining influence 
upon the development of the reproductive organs and 
upon the growth of the skeleton. 

The pineal gland is better developed in the hatteria 
(lizards) and lamprey (fishes) than in man. In these 
lower animals it is often found in duplicate organs. One 
of these organs then corresponds to the gland proper, 
while the other develops into an eye-like structure con- 
nected by nerve fibers to the habenular ganglia. This 
third eye is situated centrally on the upper surface of the 
head but is covered with skin. An ancient myth tells 
about human beings who possessed a third eye at the 
back of the head. 

2. Pituitary Gland. This glandular structure is sit- 
uated in the sala turcica of the spenoid bone, at the base 
of the brain. It consists of three parts which are struc- 
turally and functionally different: 

(1) Anterior lobe ; 

(2) Pars intermedia. This corresponds to the "test 
organ' ' of Sajous; 

(3) Posterior lobe, developed from the floor of the 
third ventricle. In adults it consists mainly of neuroglia. 

Hypertrophy of the anterior lobe results in acromegaly 
or enlargement of the bones of the face and limbs. Par- 
tial removal causes increase of adipose tissue and atrophy 
of the sexual organs (sex infantilism). 

3. Thyroid Gland. This ductless gland consists of two 



254 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

oval lobes lying one on each side of the windpipe, just be- 
low the Adam's apple, and connected by an isthmus or mid- 
dle lobe. Absence or atrophy of the gland in children 
causes cretinism (idiocy). 

Removal or atrophy of the gland in adults causes myx- 
edema. The organ secretes iodothyrin which contains 9.3 
percent iodin by dry weight. Since perverted nitrogenous 
metabolism invariably follows complete removal of the 
thyroid gland, it is evident that this gland must supply 
the system with some principle which enables it to assimi- 
late nitrogen for repair and to oxidize nitrogenous waste 
products prior to their elimination. 

4. Parathyroids. These structures consist of four oval 
bodies, two on each side of the thyroid gland, from which 
they differ in structure and function. Complete removal 
results in acute toxic symptoms which develop rapidly. 
The most prominent is muscular tetany. 

5. Adrenals. The adrenal glands are situated on top 
of the kidneys. Adrenalin (C 9 H 13 N0 3 ) is the basic sub- 
stance in the secretions of these organs. The secretions of 
these glands are increased in a marked degree by fear, 
rage or other emotional excitement. The injection of 
adrenalin produces general vaso-constriction of the blood 
vessels. Degeneration or atrophy of the adrenals causes 
Addison's disease, dark pigmentation of the skin, muscu- 
lar weakness, low blood pressure, mental apathy and gen- 
eral wasting. 

6. The Reproductive Glands. These are the testes of 
the male and the ovaries of the female. In these organs 
are located, in addition to the sex cells, the cells of Ley dig 
outside of the seminal tubules. 

Complete castration in young males arrests develop- 
ment. Transplantation of testes to some other part of the 
body in animals is followed by normal development in 
sexual desire and potency. Substitution of ovaries for 



DUCTLESS GLANDS 255 

testes in young males arrests development of male genitals 
and the animal finally acquires all the instincts and charac- 
teristics of the female. 

The internal secretions of the sex glands are important 
not only as regards the so called secondary sexual charac- 
teristics, but also have a very marked stimulating effect 
upon all processes of oxidation in the system. 

7. Thymus Glands. This organ is situated behind the 
upper part of the sternum at the base of the neck. It was 
formerly supposed to reach maximum development at 
birth and subsequently to atrophy. Recent observers 
claim, however, that it continues to increase in size after 
birth until the appearance of puberty, and that it may 
persist throughout life. 

Castration results in the persistent growth of the thymus 
gland. Removal of the thymus hastens the development 
of testes or ovaries. Thymus fed to dogs stimulates the 
growth of the body but results in mental deterioration. 
Thymus fed to young tadpoles hastens growth but retards 
metamorphosis to the frog state, thus producing giant 
tadpoles. Thyroid gland fed to young tadpoles retards 
bodily growth but hastens metamorphosis, thereby pro- 
ducing dwarf frogs. 

It is claimed that thymus extract prevents excessive ac- 
cumulation of acids, particularly of the acid of phosphorus, 
which ijt neutralizes into nuclean compounds. 

Thymus, therefore, seems to stimulate physical growth 
and to retard mental growth. 

8. Coccygeal Gland. This small gland lies in front of 
the tip of the coccyx. Its exact functions are as yet un- 
known. Its removal is followed by serious nervous dis- 
turbance. 

9. Carotid Gland. This gland is located at the bifurca- 
tion of the common carotid arteries. The exact functions 
of this gland are also unknown as yet, but both the coccy- 



256 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

geal and carotid glands seem to act as neutralizes of 
systematic poisons. 

The Relationship of the Ductless Glands 

Until a few years ago little or nothing was known about 
the functions of the ductless glands in animal and human 
bodies. Probably physiologists and physicians would still 
be describing these structures as " atrophied organs", the 
relics of a previous and now utterly changed anatomy of 
man during some period of his evolutionary development, 
had not some surgeons, regarding these organs as atrophied 
and useless relics of the past, extirpated them and found 
that people thus deprived of these " useless relics'' in- 
variably developed serious chronic diseases of body and 
mind, or died. Now, certain branches of advanced medi- 
cal science jump to the other extreme and attribute prac- 
tically all disease to the abnormal functioning of these 
small and seemingly insignificant organs. 

Sajous has probably done the most advanced work along 
these lines of physiological and medical research. The 
substance of his "theory and practice", as presented in 
the "Internal Secretions and Principles of Medicine", 
may be summarized as follows: 

"The pituitary body or gland (Pig. 33), acting through 
the sympathetic and central nervous systems and through 
the thyroid and adrenal glands, controls all the vital 
processes of the body." 

Thus modern materialistic science meets and corrobo- 
rates ancient esoteric science, which taught, in what we 
are pleased to call the ' ' dawn of humanity ' ', that the pineal 
gland and pituitary bodies were the organs of the spirit 
and the soul through which the life forces act upon the 
body. 

Concerning the relationship and various functions of 
these organs, Sajous says: 



DUCTLESS GLANDS 257 

"The pituitary body is the general and governing cen- 
ter of the spinal system, which includes the gray sub- 
stance at the base of the brain, the pons and spinal cord, 
and the nerves derived from any of these structures, cra- 
nial and spinal. 

"The pituitary body is the governing center of all vege- 
table functions, i. e., of the somatic brain. 

"The pituitary gland is divided into an anterior and 
posterior body. The anterior is a lymphoid organ which, 
through the posterior body and a nerve path in the spinal 
cord, governs the functional activity of the adrenals. 

" Since the secretions of the adrenal glands control all 
the oxidation processes of the body, this control is exer- 
cised originally from and through the anterior pituitary 
body. In like manner the anterior pituitary body governs, 
by means of the posterior body and certain nerve tracts, 
the activity of the thyroid gland. 

"The pituitary body, the adrenals and the thyroid gland 
are thus functionally united, forming the adrenal system. 

"The posterior pituitary body is the seat of the highly 
specialized centers which govern all the vegetable or 
somatic functions of the body, or of each organ individ- 
ually. 

"The posterior pituitary body receives all the sensory 
impressions belonging to the field of common sensibility; 
pain, touch, muscular sense, etc., initiated in any organ, 
including the mucous membrane of skin and brain. " (Ac- 
cording to this the pituitary bodies must be the organs 
through which the consciousness receives impressions from 
without and within.) 

"The sympathetic nervous system is also governed by 
a highly sensitive center likewise located in the posterior 
pituitary body. The 'sympathetic center' in the posterior 
pituitary body through the sympathetic system governs 
the caliber of all arterioles and regulates the volume of 



258 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

blood admitted into the capillaries of any organ, including 
those of the brain and nervous system. The caliber of 
the larger blood vessels is governed through the vasomotor 
center/ ' 

The Test Organ 

"Between the two lobes of the pituitary body is located 
an organ which has for its purpose the protection of the 
individual against morbid and poisonous materials that 
may be present in the circulation. 

"This test organ reacts to the influence of any poison 
capable of exciting it. It reacts to such morbid and poi- 
sonous stimuli by increasing the functional activity of 
the thyroid and the adrenal glands. By increasing the 
functions of the adrenals it enhances the antitoxic powers 
of the blood and of the phagocytes. 

"The secretions of the thyroid and parathyroids jointly 
form the obsonin and glutinin of the blood. " (Substances 
which serve to devitalize disease producing bacteria.) 

From the foregoing it follows that the adrenal system, 
composed of the pituitary body, the adrenals and the 
thyroid apparatus, constitutes the detoxifying and immu- 
nizing mechanism of the body. 

Inasmuch as the adrenal system has for its purpose the 
protection of the body against disease, it is by enhancing 
the functional activity of the adrenal system that we can 
overcome disease. The "vis medicatrix naturae" is due 
to the presence of auto-antitoxin, i. e., obsonin and other 
antibodies, in the circulation. 

As to the normal functions of the adrenals (thyroid and 
adrenals) during health, Sajous says : 

"The adrenals supply an internal secretion which ab- 
sorbs the oxygen of the air and carries it to the tissues. ' ' 

This secretion of the adrenals he calls "adrenoxidase". 
On this oxidase depends pulmonary and tissue respiration. 



DUCTLESS GLANDS 259 

The red blood corpuscles are storage cells for adrenoxi- 
dase. 

The adrenal secretion is the one ferment which imparts 
to all other body ferments their particular properties. 

All these propositions seem to be well proven. Ex- 
tensive experimentation and clinical experiences seem to 
prove the main facts herein described. But when Sajous 
comes to the therapeutic part of his philosophy of disease 
and cure he cannot get away from the orthodox allopathic 
idea of poison treatment. All through his therapeutic de- 
ductions and suggestions he tries to fit in the allopathic 
materia medica and artificial antitoxin treatment with the 
wonderful activities of the pituitary center and the duct- 
less glands. 

He endeavors to show that mercury, iodin, quinin and 
the host of other poisonous drugs exert a curative action 
by stimulating the pituitary bodies and, through these, 
the other ductless glands. 

He claims that through the stimulating effect of these 
poisons the secretions of thyroid and adrenals are gradu- 
ally increased and that thereby the auto-antitoxin in the 
circulation becomes more abundant and more active. 

From this we see that his idea of treatment 'is still symp- 
tomatic. Although he recognizes that the processes of 
inflammation and fever are constructive, his treatment is 
symptomatic in so far as he ignores the pathogenic sub- 
stances in the system which in the first place benumb the 
adrenal system — the protective mechanism of the body. 

If he would concentrate his therapeutic efforts upon pre- 
venting the creation of these toxic pathogenic substances 
and upon their elimination from the system by harmless 
natural methods, then the protective mechanism of the 
body — the pituitary and other ductless glands — would re- 
vive spontaneously and become more alive and active. 

Instead, he has nothing to say about the prevention of 



260 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

pathogenic processes nor about the elimination of disease 
producing materials through natural methods of treat- 
ment. The sum and substance of his treatment, as before 
stated, consists either in stimulating the ductless glands 
into greater activity by the most virulent and destructive 
poisons on earth, or in administering substitutes for the 
glandular secretions in the form of glandular extracts 
from animal bodies. What the drug poisons do to the 
system later on is not his concern. The fact that they 
create the most destructive chronic diseases has not yet 
dawned upon his "scientific mind". 

These recent discoveries of the importance of the pitu- 
itary bodies, which practically reveal them as the seat of 
the life force which intelligently controls the manifold 
vital processes, are an interesting corroboration of the 
teachings of esoteric science, which describes the pineal 
and pituitary glands as the organs through which the 
spiritual and psychical forces act upon the body and create 
the various planes of consciousness in man. 

The pineal gland is that which occultists call "Devak- 
sha", the "Divine Eye". It is the chief organ of spiritu- 
ality in the human brain, the seat of genius, the mythical 
sesame for the purifying of the mystic, that which opens 
all the avenues of truth for him who knows how to use 
them. According to these teachings, the pineal gland is, 
during life, connected with the pituitary bodies and 
through these with the physical material organism 

Organo Therapy 

When the old school of medicine began to realize the 
importance of the secretions of the ductless glands and of 
other organs and membranes in the vital processes of the 
body, they attempted to supply these secretions in certain 
diseases of the ductless glands by administering the cor- 
responding glandular organs, or extracts of these organs, 



DUCTLESS GLANDS 261 

from animal bodies. Thus they extracted pepsin, the di- 
gestive principle of gastric juice, from the stomachs of 
animals. In like manner they prepared extracts of the 
pituitary glands, thymus and thyroid glands, adrenals, 
pancreas, portions of the intestines and of other organs 
and membranes, and administered them as substitutes for 
the like tissues or secretions in the human body. 

Until a few years ago pepsin was held to be a certain 
and sure remedy for indigestion, but in all my experience 
I have yet to come across a single patient who has been 
cured of digestive troubles by this preparation. It is true 
that these animal extracts, in many cases, act as pallia- 
tives ; but I have never found them curative. The reason 
for this is obvious. We cannot strengthen a feeble arm 
by carrying it in a sling. Crutches do not cure the para- 
lyzed limb nor do glasses always cure weak eyes. The 
great law of use ordains that any faculty, capacity or 
power — physical, mental or moral — which we do not con- 
stantly use and exercise, weakens and atrophies. 

Animal extracts, and all other kinds of crutches favor- 
ing and substituting certain organs and functions of the 
human organism, do not strengthen these nor re-establish 
lost functions, but through taking away the natural stimuli 
and preventing natural use and exercise, the organs thus 
favored become more lazy, benumbed and atrophied. 

Natural Therapeutics follows the opposite plan. In the 
first place, it corrects the primary causes of disease which 
were responsible for the weakening and degeneration of 
the secreting glands and membranes ; then it makes these 
more active and alive through hydrotherapy, massage, 
neurotherapy and magnetic treatment, through curative 
gymnastic exercises, sun baths and other natural methods 
of treatment. I do not remember a single case of soft 
goiter that we have not cured without the use of thyroid 
extract. In like manner we have cured other so called 



262 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

chronic, incurable diseases supposed to be caused by a 
deficiency of glandular secretions. 

At best the correct selection and administration of these 
preparations is very difficult and even dangerous. This 
is admitted by the best medical authorities. Why should 
we resort to these uncertain agents when natural methods 
of treatment do the work without risk? I can imagine 
cases of extreme urgency where the administration of 
such preparations may be advisable as a temporary palli- 
ative and substitute until the natural secretions can be 
made to flow. But it is certain that continued adminis- 
tration of these substitutes will delay or prevent the nat- 
ural production of the secretions. The best proof of this 
is that the great majority of patients coming to us for 
the treatment of goiter, of digestive troubles or diseases 
of the adrenals, have taken the animal extracts for years 
without attaining permanent, satisfactory results. 

Each told the same story. At first the glandular extract 
seemed to bring about great improvement, but this was 
soon followed by relapse into the former chronic condition. 
How can it be otherwise? The beneficial effects of the 
animal extracts are soon offset by the progress of the dis- 
ease which caused the atrophy of the ductless glands or 
secreting membranes in the first place. 

For instance, the membranous linings of a stomach have 
been ruined by hyperacidity and general toxidity of the 
system. The pepsin cells have become impaired, thus 
causing indigestion. Animal pepsin, administered as a 
substitute, for a time brings improvement, but the disease 
conditions continue to grow worse and weaken not only 
the stomach but other organs as well. In this way the 
temporary improvement brought about by the pepsin is 
gradually offset and overcome by the general decline of 
the system. 



CHAPTER XXIII 

DISEASES OP THE DUCTLESS GLANDS— 
THEIR SIGNS IN THE IRIS 

Hyper-Thyroidism or Goiter 

(Fig. 32, p. 264) 

The thyroid gland is a double lobed gland, connected by 
a narrow bridge, situated in front of and on both sides of 
the trachea at the base of the neck. It is now proved that 
the secretion from this gland has much to do with the oxi- 
dation and absorption of protein food materials. It pro- 
vides the blood with a substance which enables the body 
to assimilate nitrogenous food elements and to oxidize 
and eliminate protein waste and morbid materials. 

Goiter is an ailment characterized by permanent enlarge- 
ment of the thyroid gland. This is usually accompanied 
by accelerated and irregular heart action and by more or 
less pronounced and serious nervous symptoms. The se- 
cretions of the thyroid are tonic in their action and act as 
a strong stimulant when present in large quantities. The 
gland has an abundant blood supply and becomes en- 
larged very readily when unduly irritated by systemic or 
drug poisons. 

The disease is very common in Switzerland and certain 
other parts of Europe. It has been attributed to excessive 
amounts of lime in the drinking water, but this does not 
hold true in all cases. Heredity and excess of protein in 
the diet are undoubtedly prominent factors. 

263 



264 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

Soft Goiter 

(Fig. 32, Area 28, right) 

In the first stages of this disease the enlargement is soft 
and spongy, but in time it becomes tough and hardened 
until it appears to the touch like hard rubber. The en- 
largement in the soft stages is due to some kind of irrita- 
tion and over stimulation. When the source of this irri- 



RIGHT LEFT 




Fig. 32. 

tation or over stimulation is removed through natural 
living and treatment, the enlargement is readily absorbed 
and disappears entirely within a few months ' time. 

Hard Goiter 

(Fig. 32, Area 28, left) 

Long continued irritation, over stimulation, acute and 
subacute inflammation are always followed in time by 
atrophy of the affected organs and by the formation of 
connective or sear tissue. This occurs in the thyroid gland 
after prolonged irritation and over stimulation. The soft 
enlargement then gradually turns into hard connective 
tissue similar to a fibrous tumor. After this has been in 
existence for some time even strict adherence to natural 



DISEASES OF DUCTLESS GLANDS 265 

methods of living and of treatment may not succeed in 
dissolving and absorbing these hard formations. In such 
cases, however, natural treatment will result in purifying 
the body, adjusting mechanical lesions and in improving 
the vital processes, thus restoring the system as a whole to 
as good condition as is possible under the circumstances. 

Ever since I began to teach the principles of natural 
healing I have claimed that enlargement of the thyroid 
gland was caused in most cases through irritation of the 
organ by systemic or drug poisons. When the circulation 
becomes overcharged with nitrogenous waste and systemic 
poisons the gland enlarges and its secretions become more 
profuse. Excessive secretion over stimulates the nervous 
system and heart action and causes increased oxidation 
(destruction) of protein waste and also of protein tissues 
and food substances. This, in turn, produces loss of flesh 
and weight. 

The succeeding gradual atrophy of the glandular tissues 
tends to inhibit hyperactivity of the organ and is followed 
in time by the opposite condition of deficient secretion. 
"While the natural dietetic treatment is very much the 
same in both extremes of soft and hard goiter, the manipu- 
lative treatment must be entirely different. In the first 
soft and hyperactive stages the nerve and blood supply of 
the gland should be inhibited. In the atrophic stages the 
treatment must be stimulative in its effects. 

Over stimulation of the thyroid gland frequently occurs 
through toxins produced by some septic disease, but in 
such cases the increased secretions from the gland may be 
needed to neutralize the toxic materials generated by the 
inflammatory processes ; in other words, the hyperactivity 
of the thyroid is protective and will diminish as the disease 
subsides. 

Irritation and over stimulation of the gland may also be 
caused through spinal lesions. Luxated bones, strained 



266 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

muscles or ligaments may irritate the nerves which supply 
the thyroid and thus cause hyperactivity of the organ. 
We have cured many soft goiters by removing such me- 
chanical irritation by neurotherapy treatment. 

Exophthalmic Goiter or Grave's Disease 
(Fig. 32, Area 28, right, p. 264) 

This is an aggravated form of goiter, accompanied by 
increased rate of heartbeat, muscular tremors, etc. It de- 
rives its name from a characteristic symptom — protrusion 
of the eyeballs. This as well as the peculiar stare which 
it produces is caused by excessive nerve and blood pressure 
from within. 

The disease is more common in women between the ages 
of fifteen and thirty, and in men between thirty and forty- 
five. Nervous shock, grief, fright and over taxation of 
the nerves are exciting and contributing causes. 

The pulse beat is sometimes as high as 200 per minute. 
The patient is very often anemic, the heart becomes hyper- 
trophied as a result of its rapid and violent action, which 
is very often followed by dilatation, inducing leakage 
through improper closing of the valves. Palpitation of 
the heart is a frequent symptom, as also is the staring 
look caused by the protrusion of the eyeballs, which may 
be accompanied by other ocular disturbances, such as 
paralysis of the lids, or paralysis of one or more of the 
nerves controlling action of the eyeballs. The thyroid 
gland itself is moderately enlarged at first and rather soft 
and elastic, but it becomes harder and firmer as a result 
of the proliferation of connective tissue. 

Muscular tremor is common and may affect the whole 
body or only the limbs. Other symptoms may be present, 
such as digestive disturbances, kidney involvement induc- 
ing excessive formation of urine or showing the presence 



DISEASES OF DUCTLESS GLANDS 267 

of sugar or albumin in the urine, occasional fever, skin 
eruptions, mental depression, melancholia or mania. 

In all cases of goiter we find that the urine contains ex- 
cessive amounts of indican, skatol, indol and phenol, and 
other forms of ptomains and leukomains created through 
putrefactive changes in the intestines and other parts of 
the body. This indicates the source of the trouble, namely, 
excessive production of poisonous acids and alkaloids of 
putrefaction resulting from unbalanced diet and defective 
elimination through clogging and atrophy of the skin, 
bowels and kidneys. Pathogenic materials and drug poi- 
sons over stimulate the thyroid and other ductless glands. 

Continued hyperactivity and increase of secretions from 
the thyroid and adrenals not only results in excessive oxi- 
dation of protein food materials, but also in destruction 
of fleshy tissues of the body. This, in turn, increases 
nitrogenous waste and alkaloids of putrefaction, and 
these will cause complete prostration and death unless 
the destructive processes are arrested. The toxic condi- 
tion of the system and increase of thyroid secretion over 
stimulates the nervous system and heart action, causing 
high frequency of pulse. 

Treatment. — The individual should be treated upon the 
appearance of the first symptoms. The increased func- 
tion of the thyroid gland in this disease may be caused by 
insufficiency of the internal secretions on the part of the 
suprarenals, ovaries, testes or pituitary gland. Conse- 
quently it requires general treatment for the purpose of 
toning up the entire body. The cardiac symptoms, when 
they are severe, can be relieved by careful manipulative 
treatment of the spine. Fresh air, moderate exercise and 
rest, are required to make a good recovery. No attempt 
should be made to suppress the activity of the thyroid 
gland itself by painting with iodin or by the use of ice 
bags, X-ray or other powerful suppressive agents. The diet 



268 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

at first should be directed toward increasing elimination 
and consequently should consist largely of fruits and vege- 
tables, and later may be extended to include a moderate 
amount of protein (grains, nuts, milk and, occasionally, 
eggs). 

Massage and Swedish movements must make the organs 
of elimination more active and alive. The spinal lesions 
must be corrected through neurotherapy treatment ; open 
air exercise, sun and air baths, constructive attitude of 
mind and soul, all must combine to produce normal condi- 
tions, physically and mentally. As this is being accom- 
plished, the thyroid gland as well as all other organs in 
the body will gradually become normal in structure and 
function. 

Allopathic Treatment 

Allopathy, in accordance with its general trend of 
theory and practice, attributes these diseases of the thy- 
roid gland to infection from other foci of inflammation, 
such as diseased tonsils, adenoids, abscesses in the teeth, 
ovaries or other parts of the body. The "Handbook of 
Therapy", edited by the American Medical Association, 
says under "Hyper-Thyroidism": "The etiology of hyper- 
thyroidism is not yet determined. . . . There are nu- 
merous reports in the literature of cases of hyper-thyroid- 
ism (goiter) following acute or chronic infections such as 
tonsilitis, sinusitis, arthritis and salpingitis. These facts 
make it seem likely that the disease is due to metastatic 
infection of the thyroid gland." (Infection through trans- 
mission from some other foci of inflammation.) ". . . 
The treatment of hyper-thyroidism is based on two main 
factors: First, alleviation of symptoms; and second, re- 
moval of the foci of infection which may be responsible." 

This means, of course, that the symptoms — nature's 
healing efforts — must be suppressed, and the foci of in- 



DISEASES OF DUCTLESS GLANDS 269 

feetion in other parts of the body must be removed through 
suppressive antiseptic, germicidal or surgical treatment. 

Natural living and treatment will remove the foci of 
infection in the teeth, tonsils, ovaries, appendix, or wher- 
ever they may exist, in exactly the same rational and 
efficient manner in which it cures all other ailments of 
the body. Bromids and coal tar poisons for the excited 
brain and nerves, cathartics for the sluggish bowels, and 
paralyzing sedatives for the rapid heart may be good 
"symptomatic" treatment, but they do not touch the un- 
derlying causes of the trouble. 

More destructive than the symptomatic drug and serum 
treatments are the more radical iodin, surgical and Roent- 
gen Ray treatments. These are positively destructive in 
their effects upon the system. We have learned from our 
study of iodin in Chapter XIV that this poison atrophies 
glandular structures all through the body. This explains 
the action of the poison in the treatment of goiter. Painted 
on the throat, it is absorbed and atrophies the glandular 
structures of the thyroid. Iridiagnosis proves, however, 
that the poison applied to the throat usually locates in 
other parts or organs, — a lucky thing for the thyroid. 
Fig. 31 illustrates this fact. It shows the iodin in the lower 
back and chest as well as in the thyroid. 

Understanding the importance of this little organ in the 
vital functions, what a dangerous procedure this is. As 
already stated, the iodin absorbed into the circulation may 
affect other organs or glandular structure in the system 
such as mammary glands, the adrenals, ovaries, testes, 
etc., and destroy their functions. 

Later on, the red spots of iodin clearly reveal in the 
iris of the eye where the poison has accumulated in the 
body. In my own case, as I have related elsewhere in this 
volume, the iodin rubbed into my throat in order to reduce 
enlarged lymphatic glands happened to concentrate in 



270 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

liver and kidneys, thus laying the foundation for chronic 
disease of these organs. Incidentally, it was the iodin 
poisoning that helped to bring me into this work. 

Surgery for Goiter 

The surgical treatment consists in snipping off parts of 
the enlarged organ, I suppose with the idea of reducing 
its hyperactivity. I can find only one fitting adjective for 
describing such unnatural treatment, and that is the word 
"criminal". Such wilful destruction can never be com- 
pensated. If total extirpation of the organ is surely fol- 
lowed by death within a few days, why destroy part of it ? 
We know positively that natural living and treatment will 
restore the little organ to a normal condition (if destruc- 
tion has not too far advanced), but it cannot restore that 
which has been destroyed by the surgeon's knife. I have 
had occasion to observe a number of cases that had been 
operated on and all of them developed, sooner or later, 
serious chronic constitutional diseases. Some drifted into 
tuberculosis, others developed malignant tumors or died 
from malassimilation and malnutrition, still others devel- 
oped serious nervous conditions, several became insane. 

Several years ago a patient of mine tried to induce a 
friend to have natural treatment for exophthalmic goiter 
instead of submitting to an operation. But the patient 
and her friends had more confidence in their "great spe- 
cialist" than in Nature Cure. The ends of the thyroid 
were snipped off and within twenty-four hours afterward 
the lady was completely paralyzed on one side. Death 
ended her sufferings about two years after the operation. 

Thyroid Deficiency 

(Fig. 32, Area 28, left, p. 264) 

The opposite of the conditions described under hyper- 
thyroidism we find in cases where for some reason or 



DISEASES OF DUCTLESS GLANDS 271 

another the thyroid gland fails to produce a sufficiency 
of secretions. Where this condition is caused by defective 
development of the gland from birth, it results in cretin- 
ism. This word is derived from the French word ' ' cretin ' ', 
meaning "dwarf". Cretinism therefore signifies back- 
ward development both physically and mentally. 

The child is dwarfed and very ugly. The tongue is too 
large for the mouth, and the voice is harsh and squeaky. 
The hair is coarse, the abdomen prominent, hernia is com- 
mon. The sexual organs remain undeveloped, so do also 
the mental functions, and the vocabulary is very limited. 
A few cases reach adult life, but the majority die in child- 
hood. The regular medical treatment consists in the ad- 
ministration of thyroid extract daily throughout life. 

Better and more permanent results are obtained by 
thorough, all round Natural Therapeutic treatment. The 
diet must be carefully regulated. The little patient must 
receive a generous supply of the positive mineral ele- 
ments. Careful massage and neurotherapy treatment, 
consisting largely in stimulation of the nerve centers which 
supply the thyroid gland, has a wonderfully vivifying 
effect in such cases. Magnetic treatment also is very bene- 
ficial in this as well as in all other forms of thyroid dis- 
ease. Cold water treatment, sun and air baths, and the 
indicated homeopathic remedies all help to make the dor- 
mant organ more alive and active. I always find that the 
plastic, sensitive organisms of children and infants respond 
much more readily to the natural influences than the 
coarser and more heavily encumbered bodies of adults. 

Thyroid deficiency in adults may result from many dif- 
ferent causes. Pathogenic matter may clog or gradually 
benumb and paralyze the glandular structures. Poison- 
ous drugs may produce similar results more quickly. The 
nerve supply of the gland may be greatly interfered with 
by luxated spinal vertebrae or through pressure on the 



272 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

nerves by contracted or strained muscles, ligaments or 
connective tissue growth. 

While hyperactivity of the gland often results in great 
emaciation, deficiency of thyroid secretion tends to cause 
the opposite condition, namely, obesity or excessive flesh 
and fat formation. This in itself proves that the secretion 
of the thyroid promotes the processes of oxidation. One 
of the principal causes of excessive fat formation lies in 
defective oxidation of protein, starchy and fatty mate- 
rials. In such cases small doses of thyroid extract, care- 
fully regulated, help to reduce excessive fat formation. 

This treatment is at best only palliative, the underlying 
causes of the ailment must be overcome by natural living 
and treatment. Natural diet and treatment must bring 
about greater activity of the organ and improve the 
processes of digestion and elimination. 

Symptoms Peculiar to Diseases of the Thyroid Gland 

Many people suffer more or less all their lives from 
severe headaches which defy all sorts of treatment. A 
great deal of this lifelong torture is due to either tem- 
porary or constant inactivity of the thyroid gland. De- 
ficiency of thyroid elements in the circulation interferes 
with the oxidation of food materials as well as of systemic 
poisons, causing, on the one hand, nerve starvation, and 
on the other hand, brain and nerve poisoning. See nerve 
rings, Fig. 32, left and right. 

We have cured many such cases in individuals who had 
suffered all their lives either at intervals or continuously 
with headaches resulting from such causes. The accumu- 
lation in the system of nitrogenous waste due to insuffi- 
cient activity of the thyroid also becomes frequently one 
of the contributing factors in asthma and in other chronic 
diseases of the respiratory organs. The pathogenic ma- 



DISEASES OF DUCTLESS GLANDS 273 

terials in the circulation are not oxidized and eliminated 
from the system on account of the deficiency of thyroid 
and adrenal secretions in the blood. Therefore they ac- 
cumulate in the circulation and clog and benumb the tiny 
air passages, capillaries and nerve filaments in the bron- 
chi and lungs. This results in all kinds of acute and 
chronic diseases of the respiratory organs and intensifies 
oxygen starvation. Here, as in many similar instances, 
we observe the see sawing between cause and effect. A 
disease producing cause sets up a certain ailment. This 
in turn aggravates and intensifies the primary cause and 
both together create new troubles, until the entire organ- 
ism becomes disordered and incapacitated. 

Myxodema. This ailment is due to more or less com- 
plete inactivity of the thyroid gland. The disease is much 
more frequent in women than in men, mostly in those 
women who have borne children. The disease is charac- 
terized by the accumulation of colloid materials in the cir- 
culation. This causes capillary obstruction and dropsical 
swelling. Frequently the hair and eyebrows fall out, the 
nails and teeth loosen and drop out, while the skin takes 
on a very peculiar texture and appearance resembling 
leather. After extirpation, or complete inactivity of the 
gland through other causes, death follows usually within 
a week from the manifestation of the first symptoms of 
myxodema. 

Chlorosis, eclampsia, eczema, epilepsy, hysteria and 
other forms of diseases are undoubtedly more or less ag- 
gravated by either hyperactivity or inactivity of the thy- 
roid gland. We of the school of Natural Therapeutics have 
the satisfaction of knowing that even when we do not un- 
derstand the exact causes and multiform effects and com- 
plications of these and other disorders, we can always ap- 
ply the best treatment possible under the circumstances 
by overcoming with our natural methods of living and of 



274 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

treatment the three primary manifestations of all physical 
disease. (Vol. I, Chap. V.) 

Addison's Disease. Synonyms: melasma, suprarenalis, 
' * the bronzed skin disease ' '. (Fig. 32, Area 19, right.) 

Allopathic definition and description : A constitutional 
disease characterized by degenerative changes in the supra- 
renal capsules or semilunar ganglia, accompanied by pig- 
mentation of the skin. Causes unknown. There is said 
to be some connection between Addison's Disease and 
tuberculosis. Pathological changes are found also in the 
semi-lunar ganglia and branches of the sympathetic nerve. 
The skin assumes a peculiar bronze or blackish pigmenta- 
tion. The backs of the hands, for instance, look as black 
as those of a negro, while the inner surface looks pale and 
white. 

Duration about two years. Prognosis, incurable. 

The treatment (as in all cases of chronic disease) must 
be symptomatic. 

Natural Therapeutic Description and Treatment. The 
adrenals are two little bodies situated one above either 
kidney. Their function is to supply to the blood certain 
substances which produce, as we have learned (page 258), 
profound effects upon the vital economy of the body. Ex- 
tirpation or total inactivity of these tiny organs, as well 
as of the thyroid gland, is followed by rapid decline and 
death. The secretions of the adrenals have a powerful 
effect upon all the processes of oxidation in the body. 
They are to the body what the igniter is to the automo- 
bile. As the latter ignites and explodes the gas in the ma- 
chine, so the secretions of the adrenals in the circulation 
make possible the combustion of food materials and of 
morbid waste in the body. 

The symptoms following the sudden or gradual destruc- 
tion of the adrenal glands have been named Addison's 
Disease. The onset is gradual and the patient develops a 



DISEASES OF DUCTLESS GLANDS 275 

feeling of weakness and languor. This is followed by ex- 
treme muscular prostration. The pulse becomes weak and 
irregular, with feebleness of the heart's action. Lowered 
blood pressure is due to the depression of the nerve cen- 
ters which control the compression of the blood vessels and 
the heart action. There may be gastro-intestinal disturb- 
ances resulting in nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. The 
skin becomes bronzed or blackish in appearance. Temper- 
ature subnormal. 

This ailment is rather rare and occurs mostly in men 
between twenty and forty years of age. Pressure upon the 
semi-lunar ganglia, due to connective tissue adhesions, is 
a possible cause by creating interference with the blood 
supply to the suprarenal bodies. Postmortem examina- 
tions have shown that frequently the degeneration of the 
suprarenal bodies is of a tuberculous nature. 

When the destructive changes in these ductless glands 
are too far advanced, even the most thorough natural 
treatment may fail to arrest the degenerative processes. 
If, however, the patient is placed under natural treatment 
during the initial stages of the disease, improvement and 
cure are sure to follow. We have proved this to be true 
in many cases. Several patients of this type that came 
under my observation exhibited drug signs in the iris in 
the area of the kidneys. The degenerative processes may 
also be caused or aggravated by interference with the 
nerve or blood supply through impingement by mechan- 
ical lesions or contraction of connective tissues. 

Thorough systematic natural treatment by all approved 
methods will meet and overcome the causes of the disease 
whatever they may be, if this is at all possible in the nature 
of the case. If systemic toxins or poisonous drugs are 
paralyzing or destroying the glandular structures, natural 
diet and all methods which promote elimination of morbid 
matter and poisons will bring about the desired improve- 



276 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

ment. Mechanical lesions and interference with blood 
and nerve supply must be corrected by manipulative 
treatment. 

It will be found in such cases that a diet low in protein 
and rich in mineral salts is more advisable than fasting, 
because the disease itself produces great weakness and 
emaciation. 

Signs of Glandular Lesions in the Iris 

(Fig. 32, page 264) 

The chronic signs in Fig. 32, right, areas 21 and 15, re- 
spectively, showed in the eyes of a man forty-five years 
old. He had contracted several gonorrheal infections, 
which were suppressed in the usual manner. The sign in 
15, right, testes, shows that the disease and drug poisons 
caused atrophy of the sex glands. This explains why he 
became impotent within a year after the disease was 
cured ( ?) . He also has suffered since that time from 
chronic rheumatism of the arthritic type, especially in the 
lower extremities. This is indicated by the chronic signs 
in area 18, right and left. 

In many instances of suppressed gonorrhea and syphilis 
I have noticed that the patients were sterile (unable to 
produce offspring) while still capable of performing the 
sex act. Many of these cases showed lesions in area 15, 
right or left. 

The sign of an acute lesion in area 23, right, Fig. 32, I 
observed in a patient who had sustained a severe fall, 
striking the end of the spine and bending the coccyx in- 
ward. This caused irritation of the coccygeal gland, re- 
sulting in inflammation of the tiny sympathetic ganglion. 
This in turn caused excruciating pains, contraction of the 
sphincter ani, stubborn constipation and hemorrhoids. Al- 
lopathic physicians had recommended surgical removal of 
the gland. The coccygeal lesion was improved by manipu- 



DISEASES OF DUCTLESS GLANDS 277 

lative treatment and the tension relieved by dilatation of 
the sphincter ani. This overcame the constipation and 
cured the hemorrhoids. 

The chronic lesion in area 23, left, Pig. 32, was visible in 
the iris of a patient who had suffered for many years with 
paralysis agitans, the result of mercurial treatment for 
syphilis early in life. In this case the sphincters of the 
anus and the bladder were so relaxed that feces and urine 
were discharged involuntarily. 



CHAPTER XXIV 
BASIC DIAGNOSIS 

Introduction 

One of the fundamental principles of the philosophy of 
Natural Therapeutics is the unity of disease. This means 
that all the various forms of disease arise from a few 
primary manifestations, namely, lowered vitality, abnor- 
mal composition of vital fluids and accumulations of mor- 
bid waste and systemic poisons in the organism. It remains 
for us to explain why it is possible that in the same kind of 
an organism a great variety of diseases can arise from a 
few primary abnormal conditions. To this we answer, 
it is the organism which is infinitely complex, not the dis- 
ease. Man, not his disorders, is the great study. 

Since a few primary causes or manifestations of disease 
may produce an infinite multitude of symptoms, it is im- 
possible to accurately diagnose the underlying disease 
from external symptoms. Therefore, basic diagnosis does 
not attempt the diagnosis of symptoms, but aims at the 
diagnosis of the patient. 

When we understand the organism, the functions and 
interdependence of its parts and organs, disease offers 
but a simple problem. 

All men are not alike. All men do not function alike. 
They are alike only in general anatomical structure — only 
in crude form or mould. Man is not altogether a machine 
operating on mechanical principles. Closely allied with 
the mechanical structure, and controlling it, are the vital 
or psychical and the mental or intellectual principles. 

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BASIC DIAGNOSIS 279 

The numerous functions of the human b">dy may con- 
veniently be classified under three main groups, namely, 
respiration, alimentation and generation. 

Respiration is that function which takes care of the 
oxygenation of the blood and the elimination of burned 
carbonaceous materials through the lungs. As explained 
in Vol. II of this series, in the chapter dealing with correct 
breathing, respiration is the function on which depends 
the inflow of the dynamic force or life force necessary to 
maintain the vital activities within the body. 

Alimentation is that function which enables the body 
to digest and assimilate the proper quantity and quality 
of food, and which removes the residue of such processes 
from the body. 

Generation is that function which assures perpetuity to 
the human race by means of reproduction. The secretions 
of the ductless glands of the generative organs are neces- 
sary to the maintenance of the vital activities of the 
organism. 

Back of these three basic functions of the human or- 
ganism lie three corresponding life principles — the phys- 
ical material principle, the mental or intellectual principle, 
and the psychical or moral principle. 

The material principle stands for substance, solidity, 
physique, and is closely allied to the terrestrial plane. 
This principle is in sympathy with physical nature, and 
its nerve mechanism — the great sympathetic — is the in- 
strument through which the life force controls animal 
functions. 

The one who possesses a large proportion of this princi- 
ple is hardier, stronger and more robust than those indi- 
viduals in whom either the mental or psychical principle 
predominates. 

The psychical or moral principle connects us with the 
Psyche or Soul of the universe. Through the psychic 



280 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

principle the individual consciousness receives an influx 
of intuitive intelligence and creative will from the great 
universal creative Intelligence which some call God or 
Nature, others Cosmic Intelligence, Creative Will, Over- 
soul, Brahm, and by many other names. The psychic 
" wireless* ' is therefore the source of inspiration and illu- 
mination; it makes possible the apprehension of abstract 
truth, — of time and space, of right and wrong. It is the 
"light that lighteth every man that cometh into the 
world". 

Consciousness is the passive capacity of the individual 
intelligence, soul or ego. It receives impressions and im- 
pulses from two sources — from the physical material sur- 
roundings through the sensory organs, and from the im- 
material psychical world of laws and causes through the 
psychic principle. Through the psychic wireless it receives 
an influx of intuitive intelligence and creative will. This 
innate intelligence senses, observes and compares the sen- 
sory impressions and sensations, and discriminates between 
them. It classifies the contents of consciousness and from 
them draws conclusions and judgments. Thus originates 
and grows the reasoning mind. From this it will be seen 
that the mind is that principle which stands between and 
connects the physical and psychical principles, and that 
we create it ourselves. 

The mind has been likened to a circle, the center of 
which is the ego and the circumference of which may be 
anywhere in the universe. In the new born infant or in 
the idiot its diameter is exceedingly limited, while in the 
great scientist or philosopher it may fathom the secrets of 
the starry heavens. It does not reach full completion until 
it embraces all there is to be known in the sidereal uni- 
verse. 

Its expansion depends upon the number and variety of 
sensory impressions and impulses received from the phys- 



BASIC DIAGNOSIS 281 

ical or spiritual (material) surroundings and upon the 
amount of thinking, reasoning and philosophizing brought 
to bear upon the contents of consciousness. These psycho- 
logical phonographic and photographic films constitute 
memory and the subconscious mind of the psychologists 
and occultists. 

Sensory impressions and impulses from without and the 
thinking and reasoning from within, give rise to sensa- 
tions, emotions, impulses and desires which, in turn, call 
forth the activity of the will. The will in action is volition. 

What nerve specialists and psychologists call the reflex 
arc consists of this twofold function of receiving and giv- 
ing, which underlies all the activities of human life. The 
balancing of receiving and giving constitutes physical 
health as well as intellectual, moral and social health. 

Violations of Nature's laws in all domains of life and 
action involve the violation of this basic principle of giving 
and receiving which is the law of compensation in opera- 
tion. On it depends the preservation of energy ; it is the 
basis of civil as well as of ethical and moral law. Only by 
complying with its demands can we solve the social 
problem. 

Reason and common sense should tell us that the rela- 
tionships of human life must be under the control of 
natural law as well as the relationships of numbers, of 
atoms of matter and the harmonics of sound. This is true 
notwithstanding the assertion of materialistic philosophy 
that there is nothing innately settled and permanent about 
ethics and morals, that they are subject to change and 
custom like fashions in hats, frocks and walking canes. 

From the foregoing it becomes apparent that the mental 
or intellectual principle comprises the faculties which con- 
stitute the reasoning or objective mind, such as observa- 
tion, discrimination, calculation, deduction and logic. It 
harbors the executive qualities and prompts voluntary 



282 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

action. It is a thinking apparatus and, in itself, is cold, 
calculating and exact. It is the seat of judgment apart 
from sentiment and feeling, and moderates the qualities 
of sympathy and mercy. 

The reasoning or objective mind deals only with facts 
and data gathered from observation and experience. This 
is in agreement with materialistic and monistic science 
and philosophy ; but these systems leave out of considera- 
tion that which makes thinking, reasoning and philoso- 
phizing a possibility, namely, the psychic principle. While 
studying and explaining the phenomena of life, they try 
to exclude life itself from the scheme of things. 

In the limited space of this treatise I can deal only very 
briefly with the relationships between the intellectual and 
psychic principles and the brain and nervous system. I 
have elaborated this in detail in Vol. IV of this series, 
dealing with natural eugenics. 

In the following we shall trace the relationship of the 
three basic principles to the physical organism. The three 
basic principles of the human entity herein described sus- 
tain a definite relationship to the three principal divisions 
of the great brain or cerebrum, and through these to the 
three basic functions of the organism already described. 
It should be understood that these correspondences or 
relationships have nothing to do with the location of 
phrenological centers. Long continued careful observa- 
tion and practical experience have revealed the fact that 
the three main divisions of the cerebrum and the three 
basic functions of alimentation, respiration and genera- 
tion are closely allied and interdependent. 

The Great Brain 
By Dr. W. T. Havard. 
The cerebrum is divided into two hemispheres, occupy- 
ing the greater part of the cranial cavity which is formed 



BASIC DIAGNOSIS 283 

by the union of the bones of the skull. Each hemisphere 
is divided by deep fissures into three separate portions 
called lobes. They are named according to their location 
in reference to the bones of the skull which form their 
outer protection, as follows: the occipito-temporal lobes, 
the parietal lobes and the frontal lobes. The occipito- 
temporal lobes are the seat of the material or the physical 
principle ; the parietal lobes are the seat of the psychical 
or moral principle, and the frontal lobes are the seat of 
the mental or intellectual functions. The following illus- 
tration will serve to show these different areas of the 
brain. 




Pig. 1. Side view of cerebrum, showing lobes and fissures. 

The degree of development in the various brain areas 
will determine the relative strength of the three basic prin- 
ciples in any one individual. For instance, an individual 
possessing the greatest brain development in the occipito- 
temporal lobes of the brain is of the physical type, while 
an individual with a high, straight, prominent forehead 
with the greatest brain development in the frontal lobes, 
is placed in the intellectual class. The individual who has 
his greatest and best brain development in the parietal 



284 



IBIDIAGNOSIS 

PHYSICAL BASE 





Full Temples 

MORAL BAS 



VVell developed 

occipital lobes, 





Hoi 1 ow Temples 

High lop he<*d 

MINTAL BASE 





tii$h square forehead Straight forehead 

Fig. 2. 



BASIC DIAGNOSIS 285 

region, or at the topmost portion of the head, belongs to 
the moral class. 

The classification of individuals in this manner makes it 
possible to determine the relative strength of the various 
organ systems. The three main organ systems are the 
digestive, respiratory and generative, and there is a direct 
correspondence between the brain development and the 
strength of the three basic physiological functions. 

Good development in the physical brain region (occip- 
itotemporal lobes) establishes the fact that the individual 
possesses strong digestive action. The development of 
the moral portion of the brain (parietal lobes) determines 
the strength of generative action, while the degree of 
development in the mental portion of the brain (frontal 
lobes) will determine the strength of the respiratory action. 

The ideal human being, of course, would be the one in 
whom these three principles were balanced; or in other 
words, in whom the mental, moral and physical portions 
of the brain were equally developed. Such individuals, 
however, are of rare occurrence. The more nearly equal 
these three principles are in development and vitality in 
any one individual, the more perfect he is — mentally, 
morally and physically. 

No person today could be totally lacking in any one of 
these principles without being marked as a defective. If 
the physical principle is very weak he will not survive 
infancy. If the intellect, or the frontal lobes, are only 
slightly developed he will be an idiot. If the psychical or 
moral area is undeveloped the individual lacks intuition 
and imagination, and is therefore limited in inventive and 
creative ability. Such an individual is lacking in the in- 
tuitive perception of moral, ethical and religious principles. 
If, on the other hand, the psychical principle greatly pre- 
dominates over the intellectual the individual tends to 
emotionalism, is negative and subjective to outside influ- 



286 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

enees and becomes an easy prey to hypnotic and medium- 
istic control. 

Every individual must possfess the three basic qualities 
to some degree, and the proportion of them determines not 
only the individual's habits and characteristics, his likes 
and dislikes, and his general temperament, but also his 
susceptibility to abnormalities and diseases of one form 
or another. 

That portion of the brain which shows the greatest de- 
velopment in any one individual is called the "base", 
while the other two weaker areas are called the "inclina- 
tions", the stronger being the "first" and the weaker the 
"second" inclination. 

The greater the development of the inclinations the 
more difficult it becomes to determine the base. The base 
is there, however, and is the foundation on which the indi- 
vidual is built. The base has a definite value, and the 
inclinations are relative to it. The latter may both be 
very weak or they may both be strong, or one may be 
strong and the other weak. All degrees of development 
occur ; no two individuals are exactly alike. Where both 
inclinations are of a low degree of development, the base 
is more pronounced by contrast. 

As we have shown, each principle has its particular 
correlated group of organs and functions in the body. 
These are known as the fundamental organs, and the organ 
which corresponds to the individual's basic principle be- 
comes his basic organ. For example, if an individual be 
physically based, his basic organ is the liver, which is the 
principal organ of the digestive system. The liver in that 
individual is the strongest organ in his body, and is the 
one on which he depends to the largest degree for his 
support. 

In a morally based individual the generative organs are 
the strongest; while in a mentally based individual the 



BASIC DIAGNOSIS 287 

lungs are the organs upon which that individual depends 
for his main support. 

There is no limit to the combinations that can be made 
with these three principles, any more than there is a limit 
to the number of shades that can be derived through the 
mixture of the three basic colors, red, blue and yellow. 
By determining as nearly as possible the base of an indi- 
vidual and the relative strength of his inclinations, we 
are able to gauge his individual index. 

By individual index we mean the relative degree of 
activity on the part of the three principal organ systems 
under normal conditions. So, for example, the individual 
who is materially based with a first moral inclination and 
a second intellectual inclination, is strongest in the di- 
gestive organs. His greatest weakness lies in the lungs, 
while the generative organs are intermediate. 

From this it follows that disease processes will manifest 
first in the weakest organ or group of organs which belong 
to the second inclination. Next to succumb will be the 
organs of first inclination. The chances for recovery are 
good as long as the basic organ and its aids are in fair 
condition and able to compensate for the weakness and 
deficiencies of the organs of first and second inclinations. 
When, however, the organism becomes weakened and dis- 
eased at its base or foundation, then the superstructure 
will soon give way and succumb to nature's destructive 
processes. 

Thus basic diagnosis aids the physician to locate the 
organs of least resistance and thereby the seat of disease, 
as well as to estimate the chances for recovery. For in- 
stance, as long as a person with a strong physical base is 
endowed with good digestive power and assimilation, dis- 
orders of the respiratory and generative organs will be 
easily overcome, but when the liver, stomach and intes- 
tines of such a person become seriously affected by de- 



288 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

generative processes, then destruction in the lungs or 
kidneys will soon result in fatal termination. 

Thus basic diagnosis enables the physician to express a 
more accurate opinion as to whether the case will improve, 
or whether the individual will continue to decline. It also 
enables him to determine which organ system needs the 
greatest attention from a therapeutic standpoint. 

Application of Basic Diagnosis 

Correspondences Between Brain Areas and Organic Func- 
tions: 

Occipito-temporal lobes (lower portion of cerebrum) — 
digestive system. 

Parietal lobes (top portion of cerebrum) — generative 
system. 

Frontal lobes (front portion of cerebrum) — respiratory 
system. 

It is only in rare cases and in exceptionally well devel- 
oped individuals that we find all three brain regions and 
consequently all three organ systems developed to an 
equal degree and capable of exercising the same degree 
of function. In the vast majority of individuals at least 
one of these organ systems is markedly weaker than the 
other two. When disease begins to affect such an indi- 
vidual it is this weaker group of organs which first begins 
to manifest changes in function and ultimately in struc- 
ture. To describe all the changes as they occur and the 
manner in which a disease process progresses, and how 
and why it is reflected from one part of the organism to 
another, would require the writing of a special volume on 
this subject alone. To prove these facts would necessi- 
tate the recitation of the life histories of a long list of cases 
from which these statements have been verified. Enough 
has been given to enable the physician and the intelligent 



BASIC DIAGNOSIS 



289 



layman to continue the study of this interesting subject 
and to profit by its practical application. 

To recapitulate : As a disease process develops, the re- 
sistance of the weaker organs is broken down first and 
the condition is then carried to the next stronger group of 
organs, and finally to the strongest or basic organ. When 
the disease process reaches the basic organ, the individual 
has entered upon the last stages of pathological change. 
If the disease process continues unchecked the individual 
will finally succumb as disease destroys his stronghold. 

In the following illustrations only the general types of 
individuals will be considered. There are six general 





types classified according to their base and inclinations. 
The base represents the strongest system ; the first inclina- 
tion, the system of intermediate strength; the second in- 
clination, the weakest organ system. 

1. General physical type. (Fig. 3.) 
(A) Base, physical; first inclination, moral; second in- 
clination, mental. 
Strongest organs, digestive ; basic organ, liver. 



290 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

Intermediate organs, reproductive (generative glands 
and system of ductless glands). 

Weakest organs, lungs. 

Prominent symptoms and preliminary healing crises: 
Those emanating from the generative organs and the 
ductless glands (thyroid, suprarenals, pituitary) in cases 
where the disease changes have not yet reached the basic 
organ. 

Diseases likely to prove fatal if not checked in time, or 
if improperly treated, are those producing destructive 
changes in the digestive organs, and in the liver — dia- 
betes, cancer of the liver, cirrhosis of the liver, and ad- 
vanced Bright 's disease. 

Early symptoms of failure of the liver manifest them- 
selves in the form of rheumatism, which may be reflected 
to the heart. 

Prognosis: Good, in cases where destructive changes 
have not yet occurred in the liver. In other words, where 
the principal symptoms are in the intermediate organs and 
the liver is still capable of compensating for the functional 
failure of other organs, this individual still has a chance 
to retrace his steps and recover his health under natural 
treatment. In this case the liver, in its endeavor to com- 
pensate, may increase its activity to such a degree that 
symptoms will arise. These symptoms, however, are func- 
tional and should not be considered alarming. It is only 
when the liver's function begins to fail, due to destructive 
changes in that organ, that the prognosis becomes rather 
grave. 

Treatment. General natural therapeutic treatment and 
such natural methods as can be directed especially to the 
liver for the purpose of relieving it of work or of increas- 
ing its functional activity, the first purpose being to main- 
tain compensation in the basic organ. The most vitally 
essential part of such treatment consists of periods of 



BASIC DIAGNOSIS 



291 



rational fasting, interspersed with periods of strict elimi- 
native diet until the liver has had opportunity to cleanse 
the blood stream of surplus waste products. 

(B) (Fig. 4.) Base, physical ; first inclination, mental ; 
second inclination, moral. 

Strongest organs, digestive; basic organ, liver. 

Intermediate organs, lungs. 

Weakest organs, reproductive and system of ductless 
glands. 





Fig. 4. 



Prominent symptoms and healing crises: Those ema- 
nating from the respiratory organs, in cases where the 
disease changes have not yet reached the liver. 

Diseases likely to prove fatal. Same as Type 1 A. 

Prognosis, same as Type 1 A. 

Treatment, same as Type 1 A. 

2. General moral type. 

(A) (Fig. 5) Base, moral ; first inclination, physical ; 
second inclination, mental. 

Strongest organs, ductless glands ; basic organs, genera- 
tive or reproductive. 



292 



IRIDIAGNOSIS 



Intermediate organs, digestive. 

Weakest organs, lungs. 

Prominent symptoms and preliminary healing crises: 
Those emanating from the digestive organs and liver. 

Diseases likely to prove fatal: Those producing de- 
structive changes in the generative organs, which result 
in degenerative changes in the system. 

Prognosis: Good, unless destructive changes have oc- 
curred in the generative glands. 

In individuals of the moral type, functional symptoms 





Fig. 5. 



manifest themselves in the nervous system as a result of 
increased activity in the ductless glands. This is largely 
due to the endeavor of these structures to compensate for 
deficiencies in the intermediate and weakest organs. It 
is when this compensatory action begins to fail and de- 
structive changes are noticeable in the nervous system 
that the outlook becomes grave. 

Treatment. General natural treatment directed particu- 
larly to the generative organs for the purpose of main- 
taining compensation. A strict eliminative diet must be 



BASIC DIAGNOSIS 



293 



adhered to and occasional fasts of from three to seven 
days' duration. Sun baths should be employed with the 
sun's rays directed to the pelvic region. The remainder of 
the body should be protected during this specific treat- 
ment. Such a sun bath should not be prolonged above fif- 
teen minutes. The vital fluids of patients of this type must 





Fig. 6. 



be conserved, consequently there must be total abstinence 
from sexual intercourse during the period of their cure. 

(B) (Fig. 6.) Base, moral; first inclination, mental; 
second inclination, physical. 

Strongest organs, ductless glands ; basic organs, genera- 
tive. 

Intermediate organs, respiratory. 

Weakest organs, digestive. 

Prominent symptoms and preliminary healing crises: 
Those emanating from the respiratory organs, in cases 
where the disease changes have not yet reached the duct- 
less glands and the nervous system. 

Diseases likely to prove fatal, same as Type 2 A. 



294 



IRIDIAGNOSIS 



Prognosis, same as Type 2 A. 
Treatment, same as Type 2 A. 

3. General mental type. 

(A) (Fig. 7) Base, mental ; first inclination, physical ; 
second inclination, moral. 
Strongest organs, lungs ; basic organ, upper lobes. 
Intermediate organs, digestive. 
Weakest organs, ductless glands. 
Prominent symptoms and preliminary healing crises: 





Fig. 7. 

Those emanating from the digestive organs, in cases where 
destructive changes have not yet occurred in the lungs. 

Diseases likely to prove fatal if improperly treated are 
those producing destructive changes in the lungs, the chief 
of which is tuberculosis. 

Prognosis: Good, in cases where destructive changes 
have not occurred in the lungs. 

Treatment. General natural treatment with a strict 
eliminative diet and frequent fasts of short duration. Out- 
door exercises are necessary for individuals of this type, 
particularly such as will increase the respiratory action 



BASIC DIAGNOSIS 



295 



and maintain sufficient compensation through the lungs, so 
as to enable the intermediate and weakest organs to re- 
cover their tone and return to a higher state of function. 

(B) (Fig. 8) Base, mental; first inclination, moral; 
second inclination, physical. 

Strongest organs, lungs ; basic organ, upper lobes. 

Intermediate organs, ductless glands. 

Weakest organs, digestive. 

Prominent symptoms and preliminary healing crises: 
Those emanating from the ductless glands and nervous 




Fig. 8. 




system, in cases where destructive changes have not yet 
occurred in the lungs. 

Diseases likely to prove fatal, same as Type 3 A. 

Prognosis, same as Type 3 A. 

Treatment, same as Type 3 A. 

From the foregoing outline it will be seen that the 
prominent symptoms occur in the organs of the first incli- 
nation. This needs a slight explanation. During the 
growing and developing years of an individual — the years 
before eighteen — symptomatic conditions are likely to 



296 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

arise from the organs of the second inclination, the severity 
depending upon the strength of these organs or their de- 
gree of resistance. Crisis conditions frequently manifest 
themselves through these organs during this period of 
life. If they are very weak, however, and the individual 
is living under unfavorable or unhygienic conditions, 
symptoms will begin to appear in the organs of the first 
inclination about the age of puberty. It is through the 
organs of the first or stronger inclination that we must 
expect a crisis to occur during the process of cure; for 
the production of a crisis not only requires resistive power 
in the part selected for this activity, but it also requires 
that some other part shall maintain sufficient strength to 
carry on the necessary compensation. Where the crisis 
occurs through the organs of the stronger inclination, the 
basic organ carries the compensation. If the disease 
process actually reaches the basic organ, having already 
progressed through the weakest and intermediate organs, 
a crisis cannot take place in the basic organ, because there 
is nothing left to take up the compensatory activities. 

In order to arrive at a correct basic diagnosis we must 
first of all determine in which of the three brain areas the 
greatest development lies. It becomes necessary then for 
us to make a general study of heads. If from a front view 
of the individual we gather the information that both 
temples are well developed and full, and the line of the 
head from the angle of the orbit over the ears and around 
the occiput or base of the brain shows the greatest de- 
velopment of any part of the head, we place that individual 
in the physical class. His base determined, the inclinations 
then receive our attention. The higher and straighter the 
forehead, the more development exists in the frontal lobes 
of the brain, the more mentality is possessed by that indi- 
vidual. If the forehead, then, contains greater develop- 
ment than the topmost portion of the head (parietal re- 



BASIC DIAGNOSIS 297 

gion), then the individual's first inclination is mental, and 
his second inclination moral. If, on the other hand, the 
parietal region contains a more marked development, is 
larger and better proportioned, then the individual's first 
inclination is moral, and his second inclination mental. 

Let us take another example : Looking at the individual 
from the front, his temples appear to be hollow, and the 
line around the base of the head appears to be constricted. 
Immediately we know that the individual cannot be phys- 
ically based; he must then be either morally or mentally 
based. We now take a profile view and we find that the 
forehead recedes slightly, consequently he cannot be men- 
tally based. The parietal region, however, is well devel- 
oped and therefore he belongs to the moral type. 

Coming back to the front view, we find a high, well 
developed forehead, which impresses us as having a greater 
value than the development existing over the temples and 
at the base of the brain ; so we pronounce his first inclina- 
tion to be mental, and his second inclination is then 
physical. 



REFERENCE INDEX 

"A-189" — arsenical compound, allopathic "cure" for tetanus and 
syphilis, 183. 

Ablutions — see Hydrotherapy. 

Abortive — quinin used as abortive, 166; ergot used as a., 206. 

Abscesses — resulting from bromids, 189. 

Acaeus Scabies — itch parasites, 80. 

Accidental Poisoning — see Poisoning. 

Accumulative — effect of poisons used for food adulteration, 129. 

Acetanilid — allopathic uses, accidental poisoning, toxicology, symp- 
toms of coal tar poisoning, elimination of drugs in healing crises, 
201. 

Acid— complex acids reduced to simple compounds for elimination, 
69; salicylic a., description, sign in iris, 114; salicylic a., sign in 
iris, allopathic uses, effect, 202. 

Acute — elimination shows in corresponding areas of iris, 38, 39 ; dis- 
ease, example, 39; second or acute inflammatory stage of en- 
cumbrance, sign in iris, 46, 91, 92; acute diseases of infancy 
nature's eliminative efforts, sign in iris white star, 47; signs in 
iris of acute, subacute and chronic disease, 51 ; activity shown by 
white nerve rings and white sympathetic wreath, 59 ; after natural 
course of acute disease, white signs in iris disappear, 92 ; diseases 
are results of nature 's efforts to expel morbid encumbrances, 134. 

Adenoids — extirpation followed by engorgement of lymph nodes in 
neck, 221. 

African — subrace of Atlantean, 29. 

After Effects — of suppression of Nature's healing efforts, 207; of 
suppression of psoric eruptions by means of poisonous drugs, 
78, 83, 88, 89. 

Addison's Disease: — allopathic definition and description, 274; nat- 
ural therapeutic description and treatment, 274-276. 

Adrenal Glands — 251; illustration (fig. 33), 252; description, 254; 
function of secretions, Sajous, 257; functions of a., 258, 259; 
relation to Addison 's disease, 274. 

Ailments — see Disease. 

Air Baths — see Baths. 

Albino Eyes — description, 18. 

Albuminuria — see Bright 's disease. 

Alcohol — hypnotic, 210. 

Alcoholic — what alcoholic fermentation depends upon, 90; liquors, 
effect of, 162. 

Alcoholism — hereditary a. a prominent factor in juvenile paresis, 
140. 

Alimentation — definition, 279. 

299 



300 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

Allopathic — treatment dangerous without correct diagnosis, 7; con- 
ception of disease, diagnosis and treatment wrong, 8; physicians 
refuse to investigate true cause of disease because it comes from 
unethical sources, 9; medicine not an exact science, 9; health 
certificates and examinations without value, 10; practitioners no 
right to say chronics and defectives incurable, 10 ; why a. school 
ignores iridiagnosis, 12; use of vaccines, serums, antitoxins and 
organotherapy, perversion of law of homeopathy, 75; use of 
serums, vaccines, antitoxins, etc., cause of increase in chronic 
destructive diseases, 84; materia medica founded on assumption 
that bacteria and parasites create disease, 90; making of a 
chronic, John's case, 95-110; ignorance covered by Latin names, 
132; doctors don't believe in giving strong medicine, 130; why 
medical schools teach il never guarantee a cure," 135; view and 
treatment of syphilis, 137; inhuman and devastating effects of 
alteratives, 138; a. authorities confirm natural therapeutic posi- 
tion, 139; clinical handling of skin eruptions, typical case, 140; 
teachings of a. school in re syphilis, Hermann, 144 ; why the truth 
about poisonous drugs is not accepted by the a. school, 147, 149; 
deception taught in a. schools, 151; prominent Chicago physician 
uses paregoric to kill defective babies, 209; explanation of in- 
crease of leukocytes in inflammation, 221. 

Alteratives — mercury, iodin and arsenic principal a., 133; medical 
dictionary definition, deceptive action on system, 134 ; devastating 
effects of a., 138; main cause of paresis, 141; iodin most prom- 
inent a. next to mercury, 169. 

Amalgam — tooth fillings cause mercurial poisoning, 153; mixed in 
dentists' hands causes paresis, 155. 

Analgesics — painkiller, effect, list, 210. 

Anatomy — of eye, 16; description of sympathetic wreath from Jack- 
son's "Anatomy," 59. 

Anderchou — work on iridology, 12. 

Anemia — effect of arsenic on a., 182; how cocain produces local a., 
210; in pernicious a. lymphatic system is clogged, 221; case of 
quinin poisoning in patient who died of pernicious a., 224. 

Anesthesia — operations under a. not shown in iris, 14. 

Anesthetic — quinin used as local a., 166; how cocain acts as local 
a., 210. 

Anglo Saxon — offshoot of fifth subrace of Aryan root race, racial 
characteristics, 30. 

Anilin — dye used in food adulteration, 128; extracted from canned 
goods, 199. 

Anodyns — opium, morphin, iodin, etc., 208; painkillers, list, 210. 

Antifebrin — sign in iris, 198 ; highly poisonous, depressing and para- 
lyzing on brain, heart and respiratory centers, 199; powerful 
analgesic, 210. 

Anti-fever — why quinin is an anti-fever remedy, 159. 

Antigalactagogue (Milk suppressant) — iodin, 175, 176. 

Antikamnia — sign in iris, color plate, 116; description, 118; sign in 
iris, 198; highly poisonous, depressing and paralyzing on brain, 
heart and respiratory centers, 199 ; insanity and paralysis caused 



REFERENCE INDEX 301 

by, 199; allopathic uses, accidental poisoning, toxicology, symp- 
toms of coal tar poisoning, elimination of drug in healing crises, 
201. 

Antipyretic — see Anti-fever. 

Antipyrin — effect of a. on sympathetic nervous system, 117; sign in 
iris, 198; paralyzing effect on brain, heart and respiratory cen- 
ters, 199; allopathic uses, accidental poisoning, toxicology, symp- 
toms of coal tar poisoning, elimination of drug in healing crises, 
201; powerful analgesic, how it acts, 210. 

Antiseptic — why quinin is an a., 159. 

Antitoxin — use of a. results in increase of chronic destructive dis- 
eases, 84; form of isopathic treatment, 89. 

Apoplexy — sign in iris of people threatened with or affected by a., 
116. 

Appendix — removal aggravates chronic constipation, causing rheu- 
matism, a case, 63; " cured" by extirpation, 64. 

Appetizer — quinin used as an a., 166. 

Arabian — subrace of Aryan, 29. 

Arch of the Aged— see Arcus senilis. 

Arcus Senilis (Gerontoxon) — described, 114; color plate, 116. 

Areas — arrangement of organ a. in iris, 23; symmetrical correspond- 
ence of a. in iris to location of organs in body, 24; split circles, 
24; arrangement of areas not accidental, 25; organ, see frontis- 
piece. 

Arsenic — distinction between sign of a. and lymphatic rosary, 53 ; 
signs in iris, description, illustration, 116; may be absorbed from 
green colors, wall paper, stuffed animals, sprays for vegetation, 
etc., 128; poisoning from stuffed animals, a case, 130-132; one 
of the principal alteratives used by allopathic school in treat- 
ment of syphilis, 133, 134; case of accidental poisoning by paris 
green used as vegetation spray, other sources, 181; effect on 
horse, 181, 182; as a medical tonic, 182, 236; chronic neuritis 
caused by a., many people contract a. habit, cases of a. poisoning, 
182; "A-189", a. compound used as "cure" for tetanus and 
syphilis, 183; allopathic uses, accidental poisoning, 184; toxi- 
cology, symptoms of chronic a. poisoning, elimination of a. in 
healing crises, 185; signs in iris, 185, 186. 

Aryan — root race, subraces of, offshoots of fifth subrace of A, root 
race, 30. 

Assimilation — human organs of, not prepared to take care of inor- 
ganic minerals, 107. 

Asthma — morphin used as sedative in, 209; history of a case of 
chronic a., 235-238 ; insufficient activity of thyroid a contributing 
factor in, 272. 

Astringents — action on system, 49. 

Atlantean — root race, subraces, 29. 

Author — eyes illustrated and described, at beginning of natural treat- 
ment 16 years ago and at present time (figs. 16, 17), 122, 123; 
experience with iodin, 175, 269, 270. 

Bacilli — of tuberculosis not cause but product of disease, 198. 



302 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

Bacteria — function, 69; allopathic materia medica founded on as- 
sumption that bacteria create disease, 90; microzyma develop 
into b. only in pathogenic materials, 91. 

Barometer — makers develop mercurial poisoning, symptoms of terti- 
ary syphilis, 146, 153. 

Base — physical, moral and mental bases, 284; explanation of various 
basic types, 285-287; physical base, 289, 291; moral b., 291, 
292, 293; mental b., 294, 295. 

Basement Membrane — of iris, description, 18. 

Basic Diagnosis — helps to confirm findings of other methods, 9 ; diag- 
noses the patient, not the symptoms, 278 ; application, correspond- 
ence between brain areas and organic function, 288; description 
of types and bases, 289-295; relation of crises to organs of first 
and second inclination, 296, 297. 

Baths — importance of nude sun, air, light and cold water b., 70-72. 

B£champ — experiments in yeast fermentation, 93. 

Belladonna — painkiller, 210. 

Bile — effect of bile in blood stream, 223. 

Black — identified with the destructive principle in nature, 61. 

Black Wash — form of mercury, use, 136. 

Bleeding — gums, lead elimination, 180. 

Blindness — color b. and total b. caused by quinin, 156; medical 
students warned quinin produces color b., 160; caused by aal- 
varsan, 182. 

Blondes — difference between brunettes and b., 33-35; why vanishing, 
b. symbol of aristocracy, 35, 36; recuperative powers better than 
brunettes, 36. 

Blood — supply to iris, 19; vessels, ciliary, 19; pressure raised too 
high by clogged skin, 67; reflux test, 71; contamination of b. 
with serums, vaccines, antitoxins, etc., causes increase in chronic 
destructive diseases, 84; microzyma do not develop into bacteria 
and parasites in pure b. and tissue, 91; effect of quinin on b., 
158; purification by spleen, condensation of pathogen to render 
b. more fluid, 220. 

Blue Eyes — description, 18; Indo-Caucasian, 19; characteristics of 
blue eyed people, 32; Columbus a blue eyed Italian, Napoleon 
blue eyed Corsican, 36; normal color for pure blooded descendants 
of Keltic and Indo-Caucasian races, 113. 

Blue Mass — form of mercury, 136 ; see also Mercury. 

Blue Ointment — causes mercurial poisoning, 153; in suppression of 
7 year itch, 240. 

Blue Pills — cause mercurial poisoning, 153. 

Body — arrangement of body areas in iris, frontispiece, 23; split 
circles (fig. 5), showing symmetrical correspondence of areas 
in iris to location of organs in b., 24; not all conditions in the 
b. visible in iris, 133. 

Bowels — area of b. in iris, how acute and chronic conditions are 
shown (figs. 17, 18), 215, 216; enlargement and prolapsus, sign 
in iris, 217; drug poisons in b., 217. 

Brain — areas, frontispiece; location of center of intellectual facul- 
ties in b., 23; paralyzed by phenacetin, 117, 199; paralyzed by 
bromids, 196; discovery of brain center of epilepsy, 189; par- 



REFERENCE INDEX 303 

alyzed by antikamnia, 199; benumbed and paralyzed by opiates 
and narcotics, 207; paralyzed by cocain preparations, 210; the 
great b., description, functions of various sections (fig. 1), 282, 
283 ; what development in each lobe means, 283 ; types of physical, 
moral and mental, 284. 

Bright 's Disease — (albuminuria) caused by iodin, 172; a case result- 
ing from suppressed itch, 228; cause of, description, signs in 
iris, 245, 246. 

Bromids — signs of various forms in iris, description, 114, 119; sign 
in iris, 187; eruptions resulting from b., 187; allopathic teachers 
admit do not cure epilepsy, but is universal remedy, 187; case 
of epilepsy resulting from b., 193-195; and loss of identity, 195; 
cause idiocy and paralysis, 196; allopathic uses, toxicology, 196; 
symptoms of brominism, elimination in healing crises, signs in 
iris, 197; potassium bromid, painkiller, 210; hypnotics, 210; use 
in exophthalmic goiter, 269. 

Bromin — salts most commonly used, action, 187. 

Bromo Seltzer — why dangerous, 199. 

" Bronzed Skin Disease" — see Addison's disease. 

Brown Eyes — description, 18; characteristics of brown eyed people, 
32 ; normal color of fourth rootrace and its subraces and of first 
three subraces of Aryan rootrace, 113. 

Bruce, J. Mitchell — "Materia Medica and Therapeutics, ' ' quota- 
tions in re quinin, 157, 158; in re iodin, 170-173; in re bromids, 
187-188. 

Brunettes — never make good ball players, 32; difference between b. 
and blondes, 33; reason for increase of, 35; recuperative powers 
not so good as blondes, 36. 

Burns — death follows destruction of one-fourth of the skin by b., 69. 

Cabot, Dr. Henry — on unreliability of ante mortem diagnoses, 5', 
table of percentages of correct diagnoses in various diseases, 6. 

Calcium (Ca) — see Lime. 

Calomel — signs of effect on stomach and bowels (color plate, 116), 
119; form of mercury, 136; medical students taught to write 
" hydrargyrum » ' instead of c, 151; given for liver and bowels, 
case of chronic asthma, 236. 

Camphor — used as painkiller, 210. 

Cancer — result of suppression of psora, 78 ; grows in psoric soil, 83 ; 
itch eruptions as healing crises, 84 ; last 50 years c. shows in- 
crease of over 400%, 84; the external discharge may become 
under drug treatment internal tuberculosis or c, 135; cancer 
cures, 185; suffering in last stages relieved by natural treatment 
without dope, 211; of intestines caused by suppression of psora, 
a case, 218; of breast caused by suppression of psora, 218, 219; 
typical case of psora, c. of throat, 238-245. 

Candy — adulterations, 129; and cake colors (chromate) source of 
lead poisoning, 180. 

Cannabis Indica — painkiller, 210. 

Canned Goods — anilin dyes extracted from c. g. by Dr. Wylie, 199. 

Capillary — circulation impeded by pathogen, 71. 



304 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

Carbuncles — one method of nature for throwing off latent and 
chronic taints, 67. 

Carotid— gland, description, 255. 

Castration — effect on thymus gland, 255. 

Catarrh — how quinin " cures' ' c, 159; morphin used as sedative in 
c, 209. 

Catarrhal — elimination, 46; remedies contain astringents, opiates 
and protoplasmic poisons, how they act, 49; sign of acute c. 
condition, description, 117; elimination of quinin, 168; acute c. 
condition of stomach shows excess of acids, 215; chronic c. con- 
dition of stomach, 216; obstruction of gall duct may cause 
symptoms similar to stones, 223; elimination in healing crisis, a 
case of chronic asthma, 235. 

Cathartics — signs of effect on stomach and bowels, 119; cause of 
malnutrition and constipation, a case, 227. 

Cecum — distention of, cause, 217. 

Cell — nourishment and drainage affected by condensation of patho- 
gen, 220. 

Cerebellum — epileptic center in left c, 189. 

Chaldean — type of Aryan subrace, 29. 

Characteristics— race, 30, 32; mental e. and iris color, 31; Major 
Woodruff's deductions concerning blonde and brunette types 
wrong, 32. 

Chart — frontispiece; key to iridology, explanation, 22. 

Chicago Daily Tribune — quotation in re new tetanus and syphilis 
cure "A-189," 183. 

Chickenpox — acute elimination, 47. 

Children's Diseases — acute disease of children nature's eliminative 
efforts, sign in iris white star, 47 ; effect of suppressive treatment 
in c. d., John's case, 94-97; poisons given in treatment of c. d. 
frequently affect the vital organs and iris for life, 128; anemia, 
rachitis and scrofulous constitutions often due to poisoned blood 
of progenitors, 138; suppression of c. d. in history of case of 
chronic asthma, 235-238. 

Chinese — subrace of Atlantean, 29. 

Chiropractor — sometimes unable to understand differing results from 
adjustment in intestinal trouble, examples, 60. 

Chloral Hydrate — hypnotic and painkiller, 210. 

Chloroform — painkiller and hypnotic, 210. 

Choroid — middle coat of iris, description, 17. 

Christian Science — errors as revealed by diagnosis from the iris, 
a case, 108-110; why syphilitic cases sometimes recover under 
c. s. treatment, 137. 

Chronic — diseases pass through four stages of encumbrance, 26; 
unity of causes and manifestation of disease applies to c. as well 
as acute, 27 ; suppression of nature 's acute healing efforts creates 
chronic disease, 27, 49; signs in iris of c. disease, 51; diseases 
have origin in hereditary miasms, Hahnemann, 76; extracts from 
Hahnemann's " Chronic Diseases," 77-79; increase in c. destruc- 
tive diseases caused by use of serums, vaccines, antitoxins, etc., 
84; chronic and chronic destructive stages of disease compared 
with fermentation, 93-94; the making of a "chronic," John's 



REFERENCE INDEX 305 

case, 94-110; diseases caused by mercury, 149, 154; diseases 
caused by quinin, 156; diseases caused by iodin, 172; headache 
due to iodin poisoning, 174; constipation caused by lead and 
mercury, 179; neuritis caused by arsenic, 182; arsenical poison- 
ing, symptoms, 185; in catarrhal condition of stomach there is 
deficiency of hydrochloric acid and pepsin, 216; inflammation or 
ulceration of stomach, sign in iris, 217; quinin poisoning, cases, 
223, 224, 225; constipation caused by paregoric and cathartics, 
227; asthma, a case, 235-238. 

Ciliary — blood vessels, 19; nerves, 20. 

Cinchona — Europe annually imports 500,000 lbs. of c. bark, 166; 
see Quinin. 

Cinchonism — chronic quinin poisoning, symptoms, 167. 

Circulation — result of pathogen obstruction in capillary c, 71 ; effect 
of quinin on c, 159. 

Civilized — in c. countries suppression of skin eruptions, and gonor- 
rheal and syphilitic diseases has resulted in hereditary taints, 75. 

Classification — uniform classification of disease, 26. 

'■ Clinical Materia Medica" — Farrington, on mercury, 142, 143; 
on iodin, 173, 174. 

Closed Lesions — described, 51; corresponds to sear tissue in body, 
51; c. 1. from cut or torn tissues run crosswise, 216. 

Cloth — dyes, as a source of arsenical poisoning, 184. 

Clothing — heavy c. suppresses skin activity, light c. necessary to 
health, 70; porous or no underwear necessary to re-establish 
normal activity of skin, 72, 73. 

Coal Tar Poisons — description of sign in iris, 114; sign of effect 
on brain tissues, description, 116, 119 ; used in food adulteration, 
128; sign in iris, 198; a ease, 199-201; allopathic uses, acci- 
dental poisoning, toxicology, symptoms of poisoning, elimina- 
tion of drug in healing crises, 201; use in exophthalmic goiter 
or Grave's disease, 269. 

Coca Cola — why dangerous, 199. 

Cocain — sign in iris, description, 117; an alkaloid from coca leaves, 
209; signs in iris similar to morphin, 209; continued use par- 
alyzes brain and spinal cord, 210. 

Coccygeal — gland, illustration (fig. 33), 252; description, 255. 

Codein — alkaloid of opium commonly used, 208. 

Coffee — effect, 162. 

Cold Water Treatment? — see Hydrotherapy. 

Collemia — effect, 71. 

Colloid— precipitates indicated by reflux test, 71; clogging of lym- 
phatic system in anemia, etc., and of lymph nodes in neck follow- 
ing extirpation of tonsils and adenoids, 221. 

Colon — distention of ascending and descending c, 217. 

Color — of eyes, normal, 18, 28; record of inherited tendencies, 27; 
influence of race heredity, 28; no black eyes, 28; of iris and 
mental characteristics, 31, 33 ; influence of disease on color of 
iris, 37; normal color restored by natural treatment, 38; of iris 
and climate, 40; c. and density indicate degree of stamina, re- 
sistance, recuperative power and life expectancy, 43 ; what dark- 
ening of iris color stands for, 76; normal colors, 113; how 



306 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

" green' * eye is produced, 117; blindness caused by quinin, 156; 
medical students warned quinin produces color blindness and 
deafness, 160. 

Color Plate — 116; description, 113-120. 

Columbus — blue eyed Italian, 36. 

Comparison — between fermentation and inflammation, 91-94. 

Congenital — stage of disease, 27; lesions, how shown in eye, 27, 44, 
46; record of inherited tendencies shown by color, 27; and 
hereditary organic defects disappear from iris of infant under 
natural management, 45. 

Conium — painkiller, 210. 

Consciousness — definition, 280. 

Constipation — results from relaxed condition of intestines, 59; 
caused by quinin, 156; chronic c. caused by lead and mercury, 
179 ; chronic c. caused by paregoric given in infancy, 208 ; caused 
by paregoric and cathartics, 227; caused by allopathic treat- 
ment, a case, 235, 236; after allopathic treatment for rheumatism, 
239. 

Constitution — quality judged by absence or presence in iris of heredi- 
tary and acquired taints, 43; four types of c, 44. 

Consumption — see Tuberculosis. 

Copper — sulphate used to color pickles, 129. 

Cornea — description (fig. 1, p. 16), 17. 

Corrosive Sublimate — use, 136. 

Cosmetics — natural therapeutics the best and most rational of all 
c, 70; as a source of arsenical poisoning, 185. 

Cough — acute catarrhal elimination, 46; remedies contain astring- 
ents, opiates, protoplasmic poisons, how they act, 49; morphin 
used as sedative in c, 209. 

Creosote — description of sign in iris, 114; sign in iris, 198; allo- 
pathic uses, accidental poisoning, toxicology, symptoms of poi- 
soning, elimination of drug in healing crises, 201. 

Cretinism — from thyroid deficiency, symptoms, treatment, 271. 

Crises — law of c. not understood by doctors in great sanitarium, 
results, 63, 64; lice c, cases, 81-83. See also Healing crises and 
Disease crises. 

Cure — law of c. see Law. 

Cutaneous — see Skin. 

Darwin — agrees that the mongrel and hybrid are doomed to deteriora- 
tion, 311. 

Deafness — caused by quinin, 156; medical students warned quinin 
produces d., 160. 

Deception — taught in medical schools, 151. 

Defective — density, explained, four degrees (fig. 6), 42, 44. 

Dementia Paralytica — see Paresis. 

Dentist — how dentists contract mercurial poisoning, 155. 

Density — of iris related to vitality of body, 27 ; normal d. explained, 
found among animals in freedom, rarely among humans, 41; 
defective d. explained, four densities (fig. 6), 42, 44; significance 
of d., 43; color and d. indicate degree of stamina, resistance to 
disease, recuperative power and life expectancy, 43. 



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Depuration — see Elimination. 

Destructive — effect of dope after death, 211, 212. 

Devaksha — (Divine Eye) occultist designation of pineal gland, 260. 

Diabetes — caused by iodin, 72; signs in iris, 242; functional, organic, 
243, 244. 

Diagnosis — correct diagnosis first essential, old school methods un- 
satisfactory, 5; spinal analysis and iridiagnosis valuable addi- 
tions, 5; Cabot's table of correct diagnoses at Mass. General 
Hospital, 6; allopathic treatment dangerous without correct d., 
7; Dr. Wheeler on reliability of allopathic d., 8. 

Diagnostician — iridology of immense value to d., 133. 

Diefendorf, A. Ross, M. D. — quotations from "Clinical Psychiatry" 
on dementia paralytica, 139-141. 

Diet — necessity of low protein d. to re-establish normal activity of 
skin, 72; why table salt is injurious, 125; of people in cold 
climates causes acute and chronic diseases, 162; how wrong d. 
produces nervous ailments as St. Vitus Dance, hysteria, etc., cured 
by proper d., 192; for goiter, 268; in Addison's disease, 276. 

Discovery — of the science of iridology, 10. 

Disease — development, four stages, 26; all chronic d. pass through 
four stages, 26; uniform division and classification of d., 26; 
suppression of nature's healing efforts creates chronic d., 27, 49; 
unity of d., 27; hereditary and congenital, first stage, 27; influ- 
ence on color of iris, 37; acute d. shows in iris, 38, 39; taints 
eliminated through skin eruption, etc., 46; signs of acute inflam- 
matory stage of disease (fig. 14, series I, p. 112), 46; children's 
diseases necessary to purify body of hereditary taints, 47; signs 
of third and fourth stages of d., 50; signs of fourth or chronic 
stage of d., 50, 51; description of signs of acute, subacute and 
chronic d. processes, 51-53; natural therapeutic viewpoint of 
manifestations of d., 59 ; taints thrown off through skin eruptions, 
furuncles, carbuncles, etc., 67; importance of natural treatment 
in cure of d., 70; is itch d. local and of parasitic origin or con- 
stitutional, 79; four stages of d. compared with fermentation, 
91-94; making chronic d. by allopathic treatment, history of 
John's case, 94-100; caused by mercury, 149, 154; caused by 
quinin, 156; taints shown in iris, 161; quinin used against febrile 
d., 166; of sexual organs, 246-250. 

1 ' Divine Eye" — (' ' Devaksha ' ') occultist designation of pineal gland, 
260. 

Division — uniform d. and classification of disease, 26. 

"Dope" — natural methods vs. dope, 211; does destructive effect 
continue after death, 211, 212. 

Drainage — and nourishment of cells affected by condensation of 
pathogen, 220. 

Drug — fiends, description of eyes, 117; frequently made by medical 
use of morphia, 208; does destructive effect continue after death, 
211, 212. 

Drugs — used in cough and catarrh remedies are astringents, opiates 
and protoplasmic poisons, how they act, 49; signs of d. in iris, 
see Iris and Signs; action of d. in making of a chronic, John's 
case, 94-100; typical drug eye, description, 114; symptoms of 



308 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

drug poisoning usually disappear before signs from iris, 123; 
accumulative effect of drugs used for food adulteration, 129; 
doctors don't believe in giving strong d., 130; how d. suppress 
disease in allopathic treatment, 135; why the truth about poison- 
ous d. is not accepted by the allopathic school, 147 ; in small doses 
accumulate in system and exert influence of large doses, 158; 
effects of poisonous drugs the same whether administered by 
doctor or quack, 188; drug poisons in digestive organs, 217. 

Ductless Glands — co-ordination and function, Sajous' teachings, 
pineal gland, 251; illustration of d. gl. (fig. 33), 252; pituitary 
gland, 253; thyroid, 253; adrenals, 254; reproductive, 254, 255; 
thymus, 255; carotid, 255; coccygeal, 255; relationship of d. g., 
extracts from Sajous' "Internal Secretion and Principles of 
Medicines,' ' 256, 257; test organ of Sajous, 253, 258; functions 
of adrenals, Sajous, 258; organotherapy, 260-262; hyperthy- 
roidism or goiter, description, 263; soft goiter, 264; hard goiter, 
264, 265; exophthalmic goiter (Grave's disease), symptoms, 266; 
natural treatment, 267; surgery, 270; secretions of d. g. of gen- 
erative organs necessary to vital activity of organism, 279. 

Dyes — cloth d. as source of arsenical poisoning, 184; anilin d. in 
canned goods, 199. 

Dyscrasia — result of suppression of psora, 78. 

Dysentery — quinin used as rectal injection against amoebic d., 166. 

Ear — center of equilibrium, internal ear, affected in epilepsy, 190. 

Eclectic — why eclectics seceded from allopathic school, 111. 

Eczema — mercurial, 154; in healing crisis of case of psora, 241. 

Ehrlich, Dr. — originator of salvarsan ("606"), 183. 

Elimination — acute shown in corresponding areas of iris, 38, 39; 
signs of acute e. in iris of infant, 47; important function of 
skin, results if interfered with, 67, 68 ; normal e. of morbid mat- 
ter through organs of depuration, table, 68; function of micro- 
organisms, 69; through the skin may be checked by uric acid or 
pathogen in surface capillaries, 71; effects of suppression of 
nature's eliminative efforts, John's case, 94-100; human organs 
of e. not prepared to take care of inorganic minerals, 107; of 
mercury in healing crises, 154; of quinin in healing crises, 167; 
of iodin in healing crises, 172; does iodin eliminate mercury, 172; 
of iodin in healing crises, 177; of lead in healing crises, 180; of 
arsenic in healing crises, 185 ; of bromin in healing crises, 197 ; of 
coal tar poisons in healing crises, 201 ; of salicylic acid in healing 
crises, 204; of phosphorus in healing crises, 206. 

Encumbrance — four stages, 26 ; first stage, hereditary and congenital, 
27; of morbid e. shown in iris by abnormal color pigments, 43; 
signs of the second or acute inflammatory stage of e., 46; heredi- 
tary disease taints and morbid e. eliminated through skin erup- 
tions, 46 ; signs of third and fourth stages, 50 ; signs of fourth or 
chronic destructive stage, 51; scurf rim sign of third stage of 
encumbrance, 73; four stages of e. compared with fermentation, 
91-94; signs of four stages of e., 112. 

Enema — aggravates relaxed intestinal condition, 60. 



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Epilepsy — often due to alteratives, 138; bromids the universal rem- 
edy, allopaths admit do not cure, 188; a case, 189; discovery of 
brain center of e., 189 ; surgical case of e. cured by natural meth- 
ods, 191; caused by acid poisoning, 192; caused by suppression 
of foot sweat, 192; a case caused by bromids, cured by natural 
treatment, 193-195. 

Epileptic Center — discovered by Liljequist, 189. 

Equilibrium — center in internal ear, relation to epilepsy, 190. 

Ergot — sign in iris, description, 117, 206; acute and chronic symp- 
toms of e. poisoning (ergotism), effects, signs in iris, allopathic 
use, 207. 

Eruptions — why appear on face and not on rest of body, 70; itchy 
e. as healing crises in cancer, 84; destructive effects of suppres- 
sion of e., 135; produced by quinin (also in healing crises), 159; 
itchy eruptions from quinin in healing crises, 167; lead elimina- 
tion through skin e. in healing crises, 180; caused by bromids, 
187. 

"Essentials of Materia Medica and Therapeutics ' '— H. Norris, 
M. D., in re quinin, 158, 159. 

Ether — painkiller and hypnotic, 210. 

Exalgin — powerful painkiller, 210. 

Excretion — results if interfered with through skin, 67, 68. 

Excretory — how complex matter is prepared for elimination through 

e. organs, 69. 

Exophthalmic Goiter- — see Grave's disease. 
Expectancy — life, see Life. 

Extirpation — by drying up with iodin, not a ' ' cure, ' ' 171. 
Eyes — see Iris. 

Face — why eruptions often appear on f . only, 70. 
Farrington, Prof. E. A. — celebrated homeopath, extracts from * ' Clin- 
ical- Materia Medica" on mercury, 142, 143; on iodin, 173, 174. 
Felke, Pastor — Iridotogist, 12. 
Fermentation — comparison of f. to inflammation, 90, 91-94; morbid 

f. as result of deficiency of hydrochloric acid and pepsin, 216. 
Ferrum (Fe) — see Iron. 

Fever — quinin reduces fever symptoms by retarding vital functions, 
159; allopathic use of quinin in f., 166. 

Feverish- — see Inflammatory. 

Food — adulteration as shown by government chemists, 128; cumula- 
tive effects of drugs used for food adulteration, 129. 

Fowler's Solution — as source of arsenical poisoning, 181, 184. 

Functions — twofold f . of life, 281. 

Furriers — liable to arsenical poisoning, 185. 

Furuncles — one method of nature for throwing off disease taints, 67. 

Gaelic — offshoot of fifth subrace of Aryan rootrace, racial charac- 
teristics, 30. 

Gall — stones not found in over one-half the operations for g. stones, 
223; black gaU, 223. 

Gallic — offshoot of fifth subrace of Aryan rootrace, racial charac- 
teristics, 30. , 



310 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

Gases — noxious, pathogenic materials created by deficiency of hydro- 
chloric acid and pepsin, 216. 

Gastritis — form of lead elimination in healing crises, 180. 

Generation — definition, 279. 

Germ — allopathic theory of disease, 90; why quinin is a g. killer, 
159; theory of disease and quinin, 161; coal tar products used 
as g. killers in tuberculosis, etc., sign in iris, 198. 

Germanic — offshoot of fifth subrace of Aryan rootrace, racial char- 
acteristics, 30. 

Gerontoxon — see Arcus senilis. 

Girdle Pains and Peripheral Neuritis — symptoms of mercurial 
poisoning, 154. 

Glands — pineal g., description, function, 251; ductless g. (fig. 33), 
251-260; pituitary, thyroid, 253; parathyroids, adrenals, repro- 
ductive, 254; thymus, coccygeal, carotid, 255; relationship of 
ductless g. 256; hyperthyroidism or goiter, 263. 

Glassware — source of lead poisoning, 180. 

Glycerin — signs in iris, description, 120; sign in iris, 206. 

Goiter — patent ' ' goiter cures ' ' cause iodin poisoning, 176 ; exophthal- 
mic g. or Grave's disease, symptoms, 266; natural treatment, 267; 
allopathic treatment, 268, 269; surgery, 270; thyroid deficiency, 
270-272; see also Hyperthyroidism. 

Gonorrhea — natural treatment of g. or syphilis never followed by 
chronic or hereditary symptoms, 145; allopathic treatment and 
after affects, natural treatment and results, 246, 247; case of 
suppressed g., 248; signs in iris in case of g., 276; sterility result- 
ing from suppression of g., 276. 

Gonorrheal — infection, Hahnemann's theory, 75. 

Grave's Disease (exophthalmic goiter) — symptoms, 266; natural 
treatment, 267; allopathic treatment, 268. 

Great Britain — Iberian tribes emigrated from Spain to G. B., 29. 

Greek — civilization founded by Keltic subrace, 29. 

Green Eye — how produced, 117. 

Grey Salve — causes mercurial poisoning, 153. 

Guaiacol — sign in iris, 198. 

Gums — bleeding, from lead elimination in healing crises, 180. 

Gummata — sign in iris, description, 117. 

Hahnemann — theory of acute disease confirmed by iridiagnosis, 13; 
theory of psora, 74-80, 84 ; ' ' Chronic Diseases, ' ' quotations from, 
77-79. 

Hair — tonics, cause of quinin poisoning, 166; dyes, source of lead 
poisoning, 180. 

Headaches — from arsenic and iodin, a case, 130-132; case of chronic 
h. from iodin, 174; powders cause of heart disease and insanity, 
199. 

Healing — forces turn from fight against disease to defend the organ- 
ism against drug poison, how so called cures are effected, 134, 
135; how opiates and narcotics interfere with nature's h. proc- 
esses, 208. 

Healing Crises — cause signs of hereditary and congenital organic 
, defects to disappear from iris of infant, 45-47 ; white nerve rings, 



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56; dark n^rve rings of subacute or chronic change to white in 
h. c, 57; denied by prominent physician, 62; Hippocrates on 
h. c, 62; through lice, cases, 81-83; itch eruptions as h. c. in 
cancer, 84; in resurrection of a chronic, John's case, 104-106; 
elimination of mercury in h. c, 154; in form of skin eruption in 
elimination of quinin, 159; elimination of quinin in h. c, 167; 
iodin elimination in h. c, 172; lead elimination in h. c, 180; 
elimination of arsenic in h. c, 185 ; elimination of bromin in h. c. 
197; elimination of coal tar poisons in h. c, 201; elimination of 
salicylic acid in h. c, 204; elimination of phosphorus in h. c, 206; 
acute catarrhal elimination in a case of chronic asthma, 235; 
in case of typical psora, 241. 

Health Certificates — for marriage, without value, 10. 

Heart — quinin acts as depressant, 159 ; salts of bromin act as power- 
ful depressant, 187; disease from use of coal tar products in 
doctor's prescriptions, headache powders, nerve soothers and 
hypnotics, coca cola, etc., 199; effect of salicylates on h., 240. 

Heat — radiation important function of skin, effects of interference 
with, 67, 68; effect of cold wet packs and cold ablutions on. 
heat radiation, 158. 

Hebra, Dr. — report on results of Hermann 's natural method of treat- 
ing luetic diseases at Hospital Wieden, 147. 

Hematuria — caused by elimination of quinin through kidneys, 167. 

Hemorrhages — from stomach in lead elimination in healing crises, 180. 

Hemorrhoidal — discharges as a means of quinin elimination, 168; 
discharges from lead elimination in healing crises, 180. 

Hendricks, Burton — 12. 

Hereditary — stage of disease, 27; lesions, how shown in eye, 27, 
44, 45, 46; tendencies shown by color, 25; tendency to disease 
overcome by natural treatment, 27, 28 ; h. and congenital lesions, 
44; organic defects in iris of infant, 45; effacement of h. lesions 
under natural management, 45 ; disease taints eliminated through 
skin eruption, etc., 46, 47; disease shows in eyes of infant in 
darkening of color and scurf rim, 65; psora or scrofula, Hahne- 
mann, 76; first or h. stage of disease, comparison with fermenta- 
tion, 91, 92; paresis, syphilis and alcoholism prominent factors 
in juvenile paresis, 140; and acquired disease taints revealed in 
the eyes of most human beings, 161. 

Heredity — influence on color of hair and eyes, 28 ; iridiagnosis solves 
question of h., 45; quotations from Hahnemann's " Chronic Dis- 
eases," 77-79. 

Hermann, Dr. — of Vienna, supt. of syphilitic wards in Hospital 
Wieden, Vienna, proved syphilis not a constitutional disease but 
easily curable under hygienic living and treatment, 143; quota- 
tions from his book, "Syphilis not a constitutional disease," 
144-148. 

Hindoo — subrace of Aryan, 29. 

Hippocrates — necessary for physician to foretell crises, 62. 

Homeopath — why homeopaths seceded from allopathic school, 111. 

Homeopathy — Hahnemann father of, 74; fundamental law of, 
75; use of psorinum in psorie case, 86; a branch of natural 
therapeutics, 87; why syphilitic cases sometimes recover under 



312 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

h. treatment, 137; true h. turned into mongrelism because people 
demand quick results, 152. 

Horse — dealer 's trick with arsenic, 181, 182. 

Hospital Wieden — Vienna, 143. 

Htdrargyrism — symptoms of chronic mercurial poisoning, 154. 

Hydrargyrum — see Mercury. 

Hydrochloric — acid, excessive secretion in acute catarrhal conditions, 
deficient secretion in chronic, effects, 215, 216. 

Hyoscin — hypnotic, 210. 

Hydrotherapy — importance of cold water treatment in cure of dis- 
eases, 70, 72 ; effect of cold ablutions and packs, 153. 

Hyoscyamus — painkiller and hypnotic, 210. 

Hyper-Thyroidism (Goiter) — description, 263; " Handbook of 
Therapy' » on h. t., 268. 

Hypnotics — bromin, 196; opium, 208; list, effects of, 210. 

Hysteria — caused by bile in blood stream, 223. 

Iberian — civilization founded by Keltic subrace, 29; tribes emi- 
grated from Spain to Ireland and Great Britain, 29. 

Ice Cream — adulterations, 129. 

Identity — loss of i. from use of bromids, 295, 296. 

Idiocy — often due to alteratives, 138; caused by bromids, 196. 

Ignorance — of doctors covered by latin names, 132. 

Impotence — due to action of iodin on sex organs, 176. 

Incurable — no condition can be called i. until all natural treatment 
factors have been tried and failed, 103. 

Indigestion — caused by quinin, 156; caused by lead poisoning, a 
case, 179; chronic i. caused by paregoric given in infancy, 208. 

Indo-Caucasian — Eyes normally blue, 19; subrace of Aryan, 29. 

Infant — eyes show hereditary\ disease by darkening of color, 65; 
nature's means of purifying i. organism of disease taints by 
skin eruptions, etc., results if suppressed, 66; inorganic lime 
water, baking soda, table salt, iron and magnesium in artificial 
food mixtures harmful to i., 125; cow's milk and fruit juices 
should be used, 125. 

Inflammation — signs of subacute i., 49; pathogenic theory of i., 
69; comparison of fermentation to i., 90, 91-94; chronic i. of 
stomach, sign in iris, 217 ; caused by pathogenic obstruction, 222. 

Inflammatory — signs of acute i. stage of encumbrance, 46; lesions, 
how formed in iris, 48 ; what feverish and i. diseases depend upon, 
90; allopathic treatment of i. diseases, 90; second or acute i. stage 
of disease, comparison with fermentation, 91, 92. 

Influenza — condition of lymphatic system in i., 221; treated by 
natural methods not followed by chronic after effects, 226. 

Insanity — sign in iris of people threatened with or affected by i., 116; 
many cases traced to effect of antikamnia on brain, 118; caused 
quinin, 156; caused by salvarsan ("606"), a case, 183; due 
to use of coal tar products in doctors prescription, headache 
powders, coca cola, bromo seltzer, etc., 199; caused by anti- 
kamnia, a case, 199-201. 

Inorganic — form of minerals injurious while organic form of same 
normally present in body, 106; why i. matter is injurious to 



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living organism, 107; human organs of assimilation and elimina- 
tion not prepared to cope with inorganic matter, 107; signs of 
inorganic minerals, 111-113; inorganic lime water, baking soda, 
table salt and other minerals injurious to babies, 125. 

Intellectual — or mental principles closely allied with mechanical 
structure, 278; location of centers of i. faculties in brain, 23. 

Intestines — relaxed condition results in constipation, 59; over irri- 
tation of i. indicated by sympathetic wreath in iris, 60; what i. 
eliminate normally, 68; signs in iris of atrophic condition, de- 
scription, 119; signs in iris frequently of black appearance in 
chronic constipation caused by lead and mercury, 179; area of 
i. in iris, 215, 216; enlargement and prolapsus, sign in iris, 217; 
effects of poisonous tonics and cathartics on stomach and i., 100. 

11 Internal Secretions and Principles of Medicine/ ' Sajotjs — 
extracts, 256, 257. 

Iodid — yellow and red i. of mercury, 136; of mercury and arsenic, 
use, 136. 

Iodin — sign in iris (color plate, 116), description, 117; signs in 
Author's eyes 16 years ago (fig. 15), 122; signs in Author's eyes 
at present (fig. 16), 123; cause of rheumatism and neuritis, 130; 
headaches caused by i., a case, 132; one of the principle altera- 
tives used by allopathic school in treatment of syphilis, 133, 134; 
most prominent alterative next to mercury, 169; described in 
allopathic materia medica, 170; acts as counter irritant and 
stimulant because it is a protoplasmic poison, 171; specification 
and uses, 172; milk suppressant, 172; frequently gives rise to 
Bright 's disease, diabetes, paresis, ulcers of stomach and bowels, 
chronic diseases of pancreas, spleen and lungs, 172 ; does i. elim- 
inate mercury? 172; action of i. in cases of so called tertiary 
syphilis, 173; chronic headache from i., 174; Author's experience 
with i., 175; a case of milk suppression from i., 175; sexual im- 
potence caused by i., 176; allopathic uses, accidental poisoning, 
176; 11,000 tons of i. produced annually for medicinal purposes, 
176; toxicology, symptoms of iodism, eliminating of drug in 
healing crises, 177; action in glandular system in use for goiter, 
dangerous, 269. 

Ireland — Iberian tribes emigrated from Spain to I., 29. 

Iridiagnosis — valuable addition to diagnostic science, 5; must be 
used with laboratory and other methods, 10 ; what the iris reveals, 
13; confirms Hahnemann's theory of acute disease, 13; settles 
question of hereditary tendency to disease, 27; with relation to 
Christian Science, a case, 108-110; proof positive of cumulative 
and destructive effects of drugs, 156. 

Iridologist — difficulties to be met, 127. 

Iridology — name applied to philosophic aspect of Iridiagnosis, sum- 
mary, 10. 

Iris — what iris reveals, 13 ; how signs in iris are produced, 14 ; effects 
of surgical operations not shown in, 14, 22; lesions, color signs, 
subacute or chronic catarrhal signs, how produced in, 14; why 
lesions in body show in iris on same side, 15; anatomy, cross 
section of eyeball (fig. 1), 16; the sclera or sclerotic coat, cornea, 
choroid, retina, surface endothelium, description, 17; cross sec- 



314 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

tion of iris (fig. 2), 17; stroma, pigment layer, basement mem- 
brane, description (fig. 2, p. 17), 18; normal colors, 18, 19, 28; 
blood supply (fig. 3), 19; nerve supply (fig. 4), 20; nerve tri- 
angles (fig. 4a), 21; acute and chronic changes in body recorded 
in corresponding area of iris, 22 ; arrangement of areas, 23 ; split 
circles, correspondence of areas in iris to organ areas in body 
(fig. 5), 24; arrangement of organ areas not accidental, 25; in- 
fluence of race heredity on color, 28; no black color, 28; color 
and mental characteristics, 31; influence of disease on color, 37; 
normal color restored by natural treatment, 38; darkening of iris 
takes place with deterioration of health, lightening with improve- 
ment, 38 ; color and climate, 40 ; seven zones of iris, 58 ; minerals 
taken in inorganic form show by signs in iris, 106, 107; question 
as to what is natural and what poisonous answered in the iris, 111 ; 
signs of drugs in iris, description, 114-120; records in iris more 
reliable than memory, a case, 130-132; reason why not all condi- 
tions in body are visible in iris, 133. 

Iron — effects of inorganic minerals, 106, 107, 111, 112; sign in iris, 
(color plate, p. 116), 115, 120, 217; absorbed in drinking water, a 
case, 120; allopathic uses, accidental poisoning, toxicology, 121; 
in artificial food mixtures harmful to infants, 125. 

Isopathy — 89. 

Itch — is itch disease local and of parasitic origin, or constitutional, 79 ; 
parasite, description and activity according to orthodox science 
and natural therapeutics, 80-83; eruptions as healing crises dur- 
ing cure of cancer by natural methods, 84; history of case of 
suppressed itch, 84-87; spots in iris, 115, 217; result of seeming 
cures under drug treatment, 135; spots in iris of cancer patients, 
219, 220; spots in kidney region in case of Bright 's disease, 228; 
suppression of seven year itch, signs in iris, 240. See also Psora 
and Scabies. 

Itchy — eruptions as healing crises in cancer, 84. 

Jasser — ointment of Jasser used by allopaths in "curing" skin erup- 
tions, 78. 

Jew — why not prominent in baseball, 32; brown eyed and black haired 
to this day if of pure Semitic blood, 40. 

John's Case — the making of a chronic, 94; John's eyes (fig. 10), 
95; John's eyes (fig. 11), 96; John's eyes (fig. 12), 97; John's 
eyes (fig. 13), 100; the resurrection, 101; the moral of it, 106-110. 

Kalium (K) — see Potassium. 

Key to Iridology — chart, frontispiece; explanation, 22. 

Keltic — subrace of Aryan, 29. 

Kidneys — what k. eliminate normally, 68; function and diseases of 
k., 226, 227 ; lesions and itch spots in eyes of patient with Bright 's 
disease, history of case, 228; stones in k., a case, 228-230. 

Lane, Dr. H. — wrote first book on Iridology in English language, 12. 
Latin — civilization founded by Keltic subrace, 29; names used to 

cover ignorance of allopathic physicians, 132. 
Laudanum — tincture of opium, sign in iris similar to opium, 208. 
Law — fundamental law of cure confirmed by showing of constructive 

processes in white and destructive processes in black in iris, 61. 



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Lead— results of use by allopathic physicians to "cure" skin erup- 
tions, 78, 79 ; sign in iris, description, 116 ; sources of lead poison- 
ing, 128 ; sign of lead, 178 ; poisoning from inhaling paint scrap- 
ings, 178; allopathic uses, accidental poisoning, 179; toxicology, 
elimination of drug in healing crises, signs in iris, 180 ; symptoms 
of lead poisoning, 179, 180. 

Lemurian — rootrace, 28; giants, probably prototypes of cyclops, 29. 

Leprosy — cutaneous symptom of psora, results of suppression, 78. 

Lesions — in eyes, how made, 14; why lesions in body show in iris on 
same side, 15; hereditary and congenital, how shown in iris, 27; 
hereditary and congenital 1., 44; effacement of hereditary lesions 
under natural treatment, 45, 46 ; how white signs of acute inflam- 
matory 1. form in iris, 48 ; 1. of cut or torn tissues run crosswise 
of filaments of iris, 49 ; subacute, 50 ; closed 1., 51 ; description of 
illustrations, 51-53; marks in iris not to be mistaken for 1., 54, 
55; closed 1. in process of formation, 52; color of 1. in iris indi- 
cates stage of pathogenic development of disease, 222, 223; kid- 
ney 1., itch spots in Bright 's disease, 228; signs of glandular 
lesions in iris, 276. 

Leukocytes — nature, how produced, 220 ; Metchnikoff theory in regard 
to 1. not confirmed, explanation, 221; reduced in numbers while 
lymphatic system is clogged, 221; natural therapeutic theory of 
leukocytosis, 225; why tuberculosis more dangerous with spleen 
disease, 225. 

Leukomains — how reduced to simple compounds for elimination, 69. 

Lice — crises, cases, 81-83; why they come, and whence, 83. 

Life — expectancy estimated by quality of constitution as revealed in 
iris, 44; twofold function of 1., 281. 

Light Baths — see Baths. 

Liljequist, Rev. Niels — work on iridology, 12; mistaken in re lym- 
phatic rosary, 53; discovered epileptic center, 189. 

Lime — (Calcium, Ca) — effects of organic and inorganic minerals, 106, 
107, 111, 112, 124; water harmful to infants, 125. 

Liver — function of, 219. 

Locomotor Ataxia — diagnosed as rheumatism, 133 ; produced by mer- 
cury and other alteratives, 136, 137, 247; man made, 138; not 
found among primitive nations, 139. 

Luetic — diseases treated by natural therapeutics never develop ter- 
tiary symptoms, 137. 

Lungs — caverns in, sign in iris, 51 ; chronic disease of lungs caused by 
iodin, 172. 

Lymphatic Rosary — explained, 53; distinction between 1. r. and 
sign of arsenic, 53 ; signs in iris, 117, 119. 

Lymphatic System — inflammation, 5; engorged condition shown by 
1. r., 53 ; natural therapeutic explanation of function of spleen and 
lymph nodes in 1. s., 220. 

Lymph Nodes — function of, 220. 

Magnesium (Mg) — taken in inorganic form never shows in iris, 106, 
107, 111, 112, 124 ; inorganic mg in artificial food mixtures harm- 
ful to infants, 125. 



316 IKIDIAGNOSIS 

Malaria — allopathic theory and treatment, 161; allopathic teacher 
verifies viewpoint of natural therapeutics, 162, 163; preventa- 
tives source of quinin poisoning, 166; condition of lymphatic 
system in m., 221. 

Malnutrition — atrophic condition of stomach and bowels causing 
m., 100; how shown in iris, 119; caused by salicylates, 202; 
caused by strychnin (nux vomica), 204; caused by opium and 
laudanum, 208; caused by drug poisoning, a case, 237. 

Mammary Glands — dried up by iodin, a ease, 175, 176. 

Manganese — taken in inorganic form shows in iris, 106, 107, 111, 112. 

Manipulation — see Spinal. 

Manipulative — treatment, see also Spinal; differs in soft and hard 
goiter, 265; many soft goiters cured by m. treatment, 266. 

Massachusetts General Hospital — report of Cabot on diagnoses, 6; 
staff of M. G. H. failed in correct diagnosis in 50 per cent of 
1,000 cases, 7. 

Massage — important in cure of disease, 70, 72. 

Materia Medica — allopathic m. m. founded on germ theory, 90; 
professor of M. M. verifies viewpoint of natural therapeutics, 162, 
163; description of iodin, 170. 

"Materia Medica and Therapeutics ' ' — J. Mitchell Bruce, quota- 
tions in re quinin, 157, 158; in re iodin, 170-173; in re bromids, 
187. 

Measles — acute elimination, 47. 

Meat — effect of, 162. 

Medical — ethics, prefers to let patient die in " regular* ' rather than 
to be cured in irregular way, 9; health certificates and medical 
examinations without value, 10; what right have m. practitioners 
to say chronics and defectives incurable, 10; statistics prove last 
50 years cancer has increased 400 per cent, 84; why m. schools 
teach "never guarantee a cure," 135; deception taught in m. 
schools, 151. 

Medical Diagnosis — see Allopathic. 

Medulla — heat regulating center, 69. 

Melancholia — means ' ' black gall, ' ' explanation, 223 ; caused by bile 
in blood stream, 223. 

Melasma — see ' ' Addison *s Disease. ' ' 

Memory — definition, 281. 

Menstrual — quinin used as m. stimulant and abortive, 166. 

Mental — characteristics and iris color, 31; morphin used as sedative 
in m. diseases, 209; and moral effects of "dope," 212; depres- 
sion caused by bile in blood stream, 223. 

Mercury — ointment in suppression of psoric eruptions and parasites, 
76; results of use, 78, 79; sign in iris, description, 117, 217; 
typical mercurial eye, description, 119; occupational sources of 
poisoning, 128, 146; one of the principal alteratives used by 
allopaths in syphilis, 133, 134; used as medicine in more than a 
hundred forms, more common ones named, effect from viewpoint 
of natural therapeutics, 136, 137; main cause of paresis, 141; 
symptoms of mercurial poisoning, Farrington, 142, 143 ; a treach- 



REFERENCE INDEX 317 

erous medicine, 143; workers salivated in mercury mines exhibit 
symptoms of secondary and tertiary syphilis, 146; m. poisoning 
* and alleged syphilis from mirror work, a case, 149, 150 ; natural 
treatment of mercurialism, 150, 151; medical students instructed 
to write " hydrargyrum ' ' instead of calomel, 151; allopathic uses, 
accidental poisoning, toxicology, 153; symptoms of hydrargyrism 
or chronic mercurial poisoning, 154; mercurial eczema, 154; does 
iodin eliminate m., 172, 173; itch suppressed by m. cause of 
Bright 's disease, a ease, 228 ; dentist poisoned by mercury, devel- 
ops paresis, 155. 

Metchnikoff — theory of phagocytosis, not confirmed, 221. 

Micro Organisms — function of, 69. 

Microzyma — function, 69; morbid matter in blood necessary to de- 
velopment of m. into bacteria, 90; action of m. feeding on morbid 
matter, results, 91. 

Milk — lack of mother's milk caused by use of iodin, a case, 174, 175. 

Mind — crippling of m. due to suppressed psora, 78; definition, 280; 
objective m., definition, 281. 

Minerals — inorganic m. in body show by signs in iris, 106; why 
inorganic m. injurious to living organism, 107, 111, 112; signs 
of inorganic m., 111-113. 

Mines — workers in quicksilver m. develop mercurial poisoning, symp- 
toms of tertiary syphilis, 146. 

Mirror — makers develop mercurial poisoning, symptoms of tertiary 
syphilis, 146, 153. 

Mongrelization — cause of change in racial characteristics, 30; makes 
for deterioration, Darwin, 31. 

Mongolian — subrace of Atlantean, 29. 

Moral — the moral of it, John's case, 106; effect of "dope," does 
destructive effect continue after death, 211, 212. 

Morbid Matter — normally eliminated, table, 68; how reduced for 
elimination, 69 ; matter in blood necessary to feverish inflamma- 
tory disease, 90 ; action of microzyma feeding on m. m., results, 91. 

Morphin — sign in iris, description, 117 ; alkaloid of opium most used, 
208 ; action similar to opium, often makes drug fiend, sign in iris, 
209. 

Mouth — sores in lead elimination in healing crises, 180. 

Mule — hybrid, cannot propagate, 31. 

Munich — paretics in insane institutions average 36 to 45 per cent of 
all male admissions, 139. 

Myxodema — cause, description, 273. 

Napoleon — blue eyed Corsican, 36. 

Naprapath — unable to understand differing results from readjust- 
ment in intestinal trouble, examples, 60. 

Narcotics — benumb and paralyze brain and nerve matter, 207; mor- 
phin and codein alkaloids of opium most commonly used, 208; 
paregoric, 209; morphin action similar to opium, often makes 
"dope fiend," 209; cocain, 209-210; do not lessen human suffer- 
ing, natural methods better, explained, 211, 212; a case, 212-214. 

Natrium (Na) — see Sodium. 



318 IEIDIAGNOSIS 

Natural — treatment, importance in cure of disease, 70; what is 
natural to the system, answered in iris, 111; methods vs. "dope," 
311, 214. 

Natural Therapeutics — methods may be safely applied pending diag- 
nosis, 7; importance of natural therapeutics in cure of disease, 
70; homeopathy a branch of, not sufficient in itself, 87; position 
confirmed by allopathic authorities, 139, 162; relieves suffering 
without "dope," 211, 212; a case, 212-214; treatment of vene- 
real infection, never followed by secondary or tertiary symptoms, 
246; n. t. treatment in place of organotherapy, 261, 262. 

Nature — suppression of nature's healing efforts creates chronic dis- 
ease, 27, 49; can develop species only through racial purity, 31; 
tries to purify infant body by skin eruptions, etc., 46 ; shows what 
is natural and what poisonous in the iris, 111; n. healing efforts 
through acute disease, 134; never punishes her children as is 
done through use of drugs, 138. 

Negroes — have striking tendency to paresis in civilized countries, not 
in Africa, why? 140. 

Nephritis — closed lesions following suppression, 52. 

Nerve — supply to iris, 20; benumbed and paralyzed by opiates and 
narcotics, 207. 

Nerve Eings — triangles, 21; described by anatomists but not under- 
stood, 56 ; concentric n. r., 57 ; dark n. r. show subacute or chronic 
condition, 57; description, 118, 119, 120. 

Nervous — troubles result of suppression of psora, 78; system, effect 
of opiates upon, 117; system, effect of quinin upon, 158; quinin 
used in n. conditions, 166 ; diseases produced by wrong diet, cured 
by proper diet, 192 ; morphin used as sedative in n. diseases, 209. 

Neuralgia — caused by quinin, 156 ; caused by lead poisoning, a case, 
179. 

Neurasthenia — caused by quinin, 156, 163; defined by medical pro- 
fessor, a clinic case, 163-165. 

Neuritis — resulting from arsenic and iodin, a case, 130-132; peri- 
pheral n., symptoms of mercurial poisoning, 154; chronic multiple 
or peripheral .h. caused by arsenic, 182. 

Neurotherapy — important in cure of disease, 70, 72; many soft 
goiters cured by n., 266. 

New York Journal of Medicine — Dr. Wheeler on unreliability of 
allopathic diagnosis, 8. 

Noguchi — test proves ' ' positive ' ' in cases of drug poisoning, 149. 

Normal — density explained, 41 ; elimination of waste products, 68. 

Norris, H., M. D. — l ' Essentials of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, ' ■ 
in re quinin, 158, 159. 

Nude — air, sun and light baths and sleeping important in cure of 
disease, 70. 

Nutrition — effect of quinin on n., 159. 

Nux Vomica — alkaloid of strychnin, 204; strychnin wheel in iris, 
115-119; description, 204, 236, 237. 

Objective Mind — definition, 281. 



BEFEBENCE INDEX 319 

Opiates — action on system, 49; sign in iris, description, 117, 119; 

benumb and paralyze brain and nerve matter, 207; laudanum, 

sign in iris, 208. 
Opium — sign in iris, description, 117 ; 209 ; 217. 
Organ — therapy, 75; reproductive organs, ductless glands, 254, 255; 

diseases of sex organs, 246; "test organ' ' of Sajous, 253, 258; 

areas, see Areas, Iris. 
Organic — defects in iris of infant, 45; minerals taken in fruit and 

vegetables never show in iris, 106, 107, 111, 112. 
Organo Therapy — what it is, 260 ; allopathic procedure, 261 ; natural 

therapeutic treatment in place of o. t., 261, 262. 
Osmosis — facilitated by condensation of pathogen, 220. 
Outdoor Sleeping — importance in cure of disease, 70. 
Ovaries — reproductive glands, 254; see also Ductless Glands. 

Packs — effect of wet packs, 158. 

Painkiller — see Narcotics and Analgesics. 

Pancreas — chronic disease of p. from iodin, 172 ; abnormal conditions 
of p. cause diabetes mellitus, 244 ; importance of iridiagnosis for 
diagnosing pancreatic disease, 244. 

Paraldehyd — hypnotic, 210. 

Paralysis — many types shown by contracted sympathetic wreath and 
pinhead pupil, 61; results from suppression of psora, 78; sign in 
iris, 117; caused by bromids, 196; caused by antikamnia, a case, 
199-201. 

Paralysis Agitans — resulting from use of mercury, 136, 137, 247; 
man made, 138; not found among primitive nations, 139; lead 
affects nerves in upper region of spinal cord, causing symptoms of 
p. a., 178. 

Parasites — function, 69; itch p., 80; allopathic theory as to para- 
sites, 90; microzyma develop into parasites only in pathogenic 
materials, 91. 

Parathyroid — gland, description, 254. 

Paregoric — signs of effect on stomach and bowels, 119; given in 
infancy cause of chronic constipation and indigestion, 208; de- 
scription, 209; a prominent Chicago physician uses p. to kill 
defective babies, 209; kidney trouble resulting from use of p., a 
case, 227. 

Paresis — sign in iris of people threatened with or affected by p., 116; 
resulting from mercury, 137, 247 ; man made, 138 ; Dr. Diefendorf 
on p., 139 ; heredity a factor in juvenile p., 140 ; prostitutes more 
prone to p. than other women, 141 ; caused by quinin, a case, 165- 
166; caused by iodin, 172; case of paresis caused by absorption 
of amalgam mixed in dentist's hands, 155. 

Paris Green — as source of arsenical poisoning, 181, 184. 

Pars Intermedia — see Test Organ. 

Pathogen — theory of inflammation, 69; and skin action, 71;. reflux 
test, 71; microzyma develop into bacteria and parasites only in 
p., 91; condensed by spleen and lymph nodes, purpose, 220; ob- 
struction cause of Bright 's disease, 245. 

Peckzely, Dr. Von — discovered science of iridology, 10; made first 
chart of eye, 11. 



320 IBIDIAGNOSIS 

Pepsin — deficient in chronic catarrhal condition of stomach, 216. 

Peripheral Neuritis — see Neuritis. 

Persian — subrace of Aryan, 29. 

Physico-Medical — why p. m. physicians seceded from allopathic school 

Phagocytes — nature of, how produced, 220. 

Phenacetin — effect of p. on sympathetic nervous system, 117, 199; 
sign in iris, 198 ; allopathic uses, accidental poisoning, toxicology, 
symptoms of poisoning, elimination of drug in healing crises, 201 ; 
powerful analgesic, 210. 

Phosphorus— inorganic form shows in iris, 106, 107, 111, 112, 120; 
effects, sign in iris, allopathic uses, accidental poisoning, 205; 
toxicology, elimination in healing crises, 206. 

Physician — iridology of immense value to, 133. 

Pickles — colored with copper sulphate, 129. 

Pigment Layer — of iris, description, 18. 

Pineal Gland — description, function, 251-253; called by occulists 
"devaksha," 260. 

Pinhead Pupil — found in types of paralysis, 61. 

Pituitary Gland — connection with heat radiation, 69 ; description, 
function, 253; relation to other ductless glands, Sajous, 257; 
relation to adrenals, Sajous, 257. 

Plasmodium Malariae — effect of quinin on, 161. 

Pleurisy — closed lesion following suppressed p., 52. 

Plumbism — lead poisoning, symptoms, 180; see also Lead and 
Poisoning. 

Pneumonia — closed lesion following suppressed p., 52. 

Poisoning — from iron, 121; from mercury, 153; symptoms of mer- 
curial p., 154 ; consumption caused by quinin p., 160 ; from quinin, 
symptoms (cinchonism), 167; from handling iodin and from 
patent goiter cures, 176; sign in iris, lead p., a case, 178; from 
lead, 179, 180; from paris green spray for vegetation, 181, 184; 
from coal tar products, a case, 199-201; symptoms of coal tar 
p., 201; by salicylic acid, symptoms, 209; symptoms of strych- 
nin p., 204; from phosphorus, 205; ergot p., 207; by quinin, 223; 
dentist poisoned by mercury causing paresis, 155. 

Poisonous — what is p. to system answered by nature in iris, 111. 

Poisons — in body shown by sign in iris, 22, 38 ; protoplasmic, how they 
act, 49; absorbed and remain in system unless eliminated by 
radical methods, 127; ways in which p. may be absorbed, 128; 
effect of p. used for food adulteration, 129; how drug poisons 
act, 135. 

Postmortem — examinations show incorrectness of allopathic ante- 
mortem diagnoses, Mass. General Hospital, 7; Dr. Wheeler, N. Y. 
Journal of Medicine, on p. examinations, 8. 

Potassium (Kalium, K) — injurious in inorganic form, 111, 112; 
bromate, sign in iris, description, 114; salts, sign in iris, descrip- 
tion, 115; iodid, sign in iris, 119, 124; bromid, painkiller, 210. 

Pottery — lead coated source of lead poisoning, 180. 

Pregnancy — because normal, not indicated in eye, 22. 



REFERENCE INDEX 321 

Prolapsus— of stomach and bowels, sign in iris, 127. 

Psora — spots in iris caused by suppression of skin eruptions, Hahne- 
mann 's theory, 74; spots, 75, 115; scurf rim and hereditary p., 
76; quotations from Hahnemann's "Chronic Diseases,' ' 77-79; 
use of sulphur, lead, zinc, mercury for skin eruptions, results, 78 ; 
spots in eye solve nature and origin of malignant tumors and 
tuberculosis, 83; case of Mr. B, 84-87; four cases illustrating 
natural and suppressive treatment, 88, 89; hereditary and ac- 
quired, signs in iris, 116, 118; result of seeming cures by drugs, 
135; cases of cancer of intestines and breast caused by suppressed 
p., 218, 219; spots in iris of cancer patients, 219, 220; typical case 
of p., 238-242. 

Prostitutes — more prone to paresis than other women, why, 141. 

Protoplasmic — poisons, how they act, 49 ; allopathy confirms natural 
therapeutic claims as to p. poisons, 170. 

Psorinum — homeopathic remedy, use, 86, 87. 

Pthisis — of lungs, a case, 230-234. 

Ptomains — how reduced to simple compounds for elimination, 69. 

Pupil — pinhead pupil found in many types of paralysis, 61; highly 
mobile p. indicative of nervous irritation, 61. 

Pure Food Law — effect of, 129. 

Purgings — acute elimination, 46; quinin elimination through p., 168. 

Quicksilver — see Mercury. 

Quinin — signs in iris, 114, 117, 217 ; alkaloid of cinchona or peruvian 
bark, 156; ailments produced, 156; J. Mitchell Bruce on q., 157, 
158; H. Norris, M. D., on q., 158, 159; effect of q. in fever as 
contrasted with cold water treatment, 158; protoplasmic poison, 
159; medical students warned not to give q. to railroad men as it 
produces color blindness and deafness, 160; consumption caused 
by q. poisoning, 160, 161 ; allopathic treatment of malaria with q., 
161; allopathic teacher verifies viewpoint of natural therapeutics 
as to use of q. in malaria, 162, 163; neurasthenia caused by q., 
a clinical case, 163-165; paresis caused by q., a case, 165, 166; 
allopathic uses, accidental poisoning, 166; Europe annually im- 
ports 500,000 lbs. of cinchona bark, 166; elimination of q. in 
healing crises, 168; cases of chronic quinin poisoning, 223, 224, 
225. 

Race — Lemurian root race, 28; Atlantean root, subraces, Chinese, 
Mongolian, African, Turanian, 29; Aryan root, subraces, Hindoo, 
Arabian, Persian, Keltic, Indo-Caucasian, 29; Germanic, Gallic, 
Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian offshoots of fifth subrace of 
Aryan root race, racial characteristics, 30; Mongrelization cause 
of change in race characteristics, 30; racial purity necessary for 
improvement, 31; why Jew not prominent in baseball, 32; why 
brunettes increasing and blondes vanishing, 36. 

Radiation — heat, see Heat. 

Radii Solaris — not to be mistaken for lesions, 54. 

Reasoning — mind, definition, 281. 

Rectum — distention of, cause, 217. 

Reflex Arc — definition, 281. 



322 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

Reflux Test — 71. 

Begimen — natural r. regenerates the skin and causes decrease or dis- 
appearance of scurf rim, 73. 

Eelationship— r. of ductless glands, 256. 

Reproductive — glands, illustration, 252; description, 254, 255. 

Respiration — definition, 279. 

Respiratory Organs — diseases, signs in iris, 230, 231. 

Resurrection — of a chronic, John's case, 101. 

Retina — or inner coat of iris, description, 17. 

Rheumatism — from arsenic and iodin, a case, 130-132; locomotor 
ataxia diagnosed as r., 133; caused by q., 156; caused by lead 
poisoning, a case, 179; history of suppressive treatment of r. in 
typical case of psora, 238-245; case of chronic arthritic r. from 
gonorrheal infection (fig. 32, 264), 276. 

Rockefeller Institute — produced "A-189," arsenical compound as 
a cure for tetanus and syphilis, 183. 

i * Rough on Rats ' ' — source of arsenical poisoning, 184. 

Saint Vitus' Dance? — from wrong diet, cured by proper diet, 192. 

Sajous, Dr. Charles E. de — explanation of action of mercury and 
other alteratives, 134; on coordination and function of ductless 
glands, 251; on relationship of the ductless glands, 256, 257; 
functions of adrenals, 258, 259; treatment symtomatie, 259. 

Salicylic Acid — description of sign in iris, 114; signs in iris, allo- 
pathic uses, effects, 202. 

Salivation — of workers in mercury mines who never had syphilis, 
exhibit all symptoms of secondary and tertiary syphilis, 146; 
symptoms of chronic mercurial poisoning, 154. 

Salt — ring, description, 119; table salt harmful to infants, 125; 
why table salt is injurious, 125. 

Salvarsan — as cure for syphilis admitted by medical authorities dis- 
appointing, 149 ; as a source of arsenical poisoning, 181 ; chemical 
formula, terrible effects of its use, cases, 182, 183. 

Salicylates — used in treatment of rheumatism, signs in iris, 239; 
effect on heart, 240. 

Sarkoptes Hominis — itch parasites, 80. 

Scabies — see Itch; four cases of s. illustrating natural and suppres- 
sive treatment, 88. 

Scalds — death follows destruction of one fourth of skin by scalds, 69. 

Scandinavian — offshoot of fifth subrace of Aryan root race, racial 
characteristics, 30. 

Scarlet Fever — acute elimination, 46, 47. 

Scar Tissue — see Tissue; shows as closed lesion in iris, 51. 

Science — orthodox s. contradiction on heredity, 45 ; Christian Science* 
see Christian. 

Sclera — or sclerotic coat, description, 17. * 

Scrofula — called by Hahnemann " hereditary psora," 76. 

Scrofulous — constitution shown by scurf rim, 69 ; elimination, sign of, 
description, 118 ; sores, result of seeming cures under drug treat- 
ment, 135. 

"Scrofulous Diathesis' 5 — Hahnemann's " Hereditary Psora," 76. 



REFERENCE INDEX 323 

Scuef Rim — why so called, 48 ; what it indicates, 65 ; disappears when 
through natural treatment skin becomes more alive and active, 
67; why it stands for scrofulous constitution, 69; betokens ten- 
dency to chronic catarrhal conditions, 69, 70; described by anat- 
omist but causes not understood, 71; illustrated (fig. 8), 66; why 
defective skin action is not always shown by s. r., 71 ; how to 
efface, 72, 73; and hereditary psora, 76; description, 118, 119; 
broadened and intensified by mercury, 136; acquired s. r., 231; 
hereditary s. r., 231 ; in case of psora, 239. 

Sedative — bromin, 196; opium, 208; laudanum, 208; paregoric, 209; 
morphin, 209; list of sedatives, effect, 210. 

Semitic — Aryan subrace, 291. 

Serum — use of serums results in increase of chronic destructive dis- 
eases, 84; form of isopathie treatment, 89. 

Sequelae — see After Effects. 

Sex Organs — action of iodin on s. o. causes sexual impotence, 176; 
bromin salts powerful depressants on sex organs, 187 ; diseases of 
s. o., 246. 

Sexual — impotence traced to action of iodin, 176; over stimulation 
from wrong diet, cured by proper diet, 192. 

Shaking Palsy — see Paralysis Agitans. 

Siberia — cradle of Aryan race, 29. 

Sigmoid Flexure — distention of s. f ., cause, 217. 

Significance — of black and white in the eye, 61. 

Signs — in eyes, how produced, 14, 42; of acute elimination, 38, 39; 
of defective density, four densities, 42 ; of hereditary and congeni- 
tal defects disappear from iris of infant under natural manage- 
ment, 45; of second stage of encumbrance, 46; of eliminative 
processes in iris of infant, white star, 47 ; of suppression, 47 ; how 
white s. of acute inflammatory lesions are formed in iris, 48; 
acute healing efforts shown by white s., how formed, 48; of cut 
or torn tissues, of inflammatory processes, 49 ; of subacute inflam- 
mation, 49; of third and fourth stages of encumbrance, how 
formed, 50, 51; of acute, subacute and chronic disease processes, 
51 ; of third stage of disease, 73 ; inflammatory s. disappear after 
natural course of healing, 92; changes of s. in iris in John's case, 
95-100; of four stages of encumbrance (fig. 14), 112; of drugs in 
iris, description (color plate, 116), 114-120; drug s. as shown in 
Author's eyes 16 years ago and at present, 122, 123; s. of inor- 
ganic minerals, 130; of mercury, 136, 155; of quinin, 168; of iodin, 
169, 170 ; of lead, 178 ; of arsenic, 185 ; s. of bromin, 197 ; of coal 
tar poisons, 198; of salicylic acid, 202; of strychnin, 204; of 
phosphorus, 205; of acute and chronic condition of stomach, 
bowels and sympathetic nervous system, 215, 216; of chronic in- 
flammation, ulceration, enlargement and prolapsus of digestive 
tract, 216, 217; of itch in eyes of cancer patients, 219, 220; in 
iris of Bright 's disease patient, 228; in case of chronic asthma, 
237; in case of psora, 239; salt ring, 239; in diabetes mellitus, 
242; of glandular lesions, 276. 

"Similia Similibus curantur" — fundamental law of homeopathy, 
75 ; proved by history of case of suppressed psora, 84-87. 

" 606"— see Salvarsan. 



324 IRIDIAGNOSIS 

Skin — eruptions eliminate morbid encumbrance and hereditary taints, 
46; poor skin action shown by scurf rim, 65; skin eruptions 
nature's means of purifying infant organism, results of suppres- 
sion, 66; has two important functions, heat radiation and excre- 
tion, results of interference with 67, 68, 69; what the s. eliminates 
normally, 68, 69; if one fourth is destroyed death results, 69; 
of face often only active piece of s. on body, 70 ; pathogen and s. 
action, 71; why defective s. action not always shown by scurf 
rim, 71 ; results of ' l curing ' ' s. eruptions by lead, zinc, mercury, 
sulphur, etc., 78, 79; eruptions produced by quinin in healing 
crises, 159; eruptions produced by lead in healing crises, 180; 
eruptions as healing crises in a case of psora, 241. 

Sleeping — nude and outdoor s. important in cure of disease, 70. 

Sodium — taken in inorganic form shows in iris, 106, 107, 111, 112; 
various forms of s., sign in iris, description, 115, 119, 120; as 
shown in Author's eyes 16 years ago and at present, 122, 123; 
baking soda harmful in infant's food mixture, 125. 

Soothing Syrup — cause of malnutrition and constipation, a case, 227. 

Sores — in mouth in elimination of lead in healing crises, 180. 

Spasms — result of suppression of psora, 78 ; in epilepsy, 190. 

Spleen — chronic disease of s. from iodin, 172; functions, 219, 220. 

SPiNAii — analysis, 5; manipulation to correct relaxed or over-stimu- 
lated intestines, examples, 60; paralysis caused by cocain prepa- 
rations, 210. 

Split Circles — (fig. 5), 24. 

Stages — of encumbrance, 26 ; signs of first stage of encumbrance, 27 ; 
signs of second stage, 46; signs of third and fourth stages, 50, 
51 ; first or hereditary, second or acute inflammatory s. of disease, 
91, 92; third or chronic stage of disease, 92, 93; fourth or chronic 
destructive stage of disease, 93, 94; signs of four s. of encum- 
brance (fig. 14), 112. 

Sterility — caused by suppressed gonorrhea and syphilis, 276. 

Stones — in kidneys, a case, 228-230. 

Stramonium — painkiller, 210. 

Stroma — of iris, description, 18. 

Strychnin — wheel, 115, 119; description, allopathic uses, symptoms 
of s. poisoning, sign in iris, 204, 236, 237. 

Stomach — signs in iris of action of opiates and cathartics on s., 117 ; 
lead has strong affinity for s., 178; ulcers of s. from lead poison- 
ing, 178; hemorrhages from s. from lead elimination in healing 
crises, 180; area in iris, how acute and chronic catarrhal condi- 
tions are shown, 215; analysis of contents not necessary; test 
by iridiagnosis, 216 ; chronic inflammation or ulceration, sign in 
iris, 216, 217 ; prolapsus and enlargement, sign in iris, 217 ; drug 
poisons in s., 217. 

Subacute — signs in iris of s. disease, 51. 

Sulphonal — hypnotic, 210. 

Sulphur — ointment used in suppression of psoric eruption and para- 
sites, 76; results of use on skin eruption, 78, 79; taken in inor- 
ganic form shows in iris, 106, 107; sign in iris, description, 118, 
126, 217; itch suppressed by s. cause of Bright 's disease, a case, 
228 ; and molasses in treatment of seven year itch, 240. 



REFERENCE INDEX 325 

Sun Baths — see Baths. 

Suprarenal — relation to Addison's disease, 274; see Adrenal glands. 

Suprarenale — see Addison's disease. 

Suppression — of nature's healing efforts creates chronic disease, 27, 
49 ; signs of s. in iris of infant, 47 ; how drugs suppress catarrhal 
elimination, 49; of disease produces scurf rim, 73; of itch and 
other skin eruptions shown by psora spots in iris, 74 ; results of s. 
of skin eruptions, 78, 79; of itchy, gonorrheal and syphilitic dis- 
eases has produced three hereditary taints, 75; effects of allo- 
pathic s., John's case, 91-100; how s. is accomplished by drug 
poisons, 134, 135; one more s. sometimes too much, 152; s. of 
psora cause of cancer of intestines and breast, 218, 219; of itch 
by sulphur and mercury cause of Bright 's disease, a case, 228; 
a case of chronic asthma caused by allopathic s., 235-238; of 
gonorrheal infection, a case, 248. 

Surface Endothelium — of iris, description, 17. 

Surgery — under anesthesia not shown in iris, 14, 22; in epilepsy not 
successful, 190; advised by allopath in cancer, a case, 238-245; 
for goiter, 270; surgical case of epilepsy cured by natural thera- 
peutic methods, 191. 

Symbolism — identifies white with the constructive and black with the 
destructive principle in nature, 61. 

Sympathetic Nervous System — sign in iris, 215, 216; control of s. 
n. s. through posterior pituitary body, 257 ; s. n. s. controls vaso- 
motor centers, 257. 

Sympathetic Wreath — shows acute healing activity of nature, 56; 
anatomical description, 59 ; identical in location with blood vessels 
of iris, 59 ; contracted s. w. found in many types of paralysis, 61 ; 
what it shows, 117, 118 ; described, 215, 216. 

Syphilis — Hahnemann's theory, 75; tertiary, 120; principal altera- 
tives used in treatment of s., 133, 134; result of seeming cures 
under drug treatment, 135, 137; forms of mercury used in medi- 
cal treatment, 136; never develops tertiary symptoms when treated 
by natural therapeutic methods, 137; devastating effects of altera- 
tives, 138; not found among primitive people, 139; heredity a 
prominent factor in juvenile paresis, not a constitutional disease, 
curable under proper hygienic treatment, Dr. Hermann, 143; 
61,000 cases of s. cured by Dr. Hermann without alteratives, 143 ; 
history and description of s., Hermann, 144; no case treated by 
natural therapeutics has developed constitutional symptoms, 145; 
disease diagnosed as s. caused by mercurial treatment or other 
disease taints, Hermann, 145 ; workers salivated in mercury mines 
exhibit tertiary symptoms, 146; iridiagnosis proves so-called ter- 
tiary s. caused by drugs, 149 ; a typical case, 149 ; natural treat- 
ment of mercurialism, 150, 151; action of iodin in cases of so- 
called tertiary s., 173; "A-189," arsenical compound used as 
"cure" for s., 183; allopathic treatment and results, 246; natural 
treatment and results, 247; suppressed s., history of a case, signs 
in iris, 249, 250. 

Table — of correct antemortem diagnoses, by Cabot, 6; products 
normally eliminated by organs of depuration, 68. 



326 IKIDIAGNOSIS 

Taints — hereditary t. eliminated through skin eruptions, etc., 46. 

Taxidermists — liable to arsenical poisoning, 185. 

Tea— effect of, 162. 

Temperature: — how natural t. of body maintained, 67; effect of 
quinin on, 158. 

Testes — reproductive glands, 254; see also Ductless Glands. 

Test Organ — of Sajous, 253; 258. 

Thermometer — makers develop tertiary symptoms, 146, 153. 

Thiel, Dr. — Iridologist, 12. 

Thymus— gland (fig. 33), 252; description, 255. 

Thyroid — gland (fig. 33), 252; description, 253, 254; relation to 
adrenals, Sajous, 257; deficiency, 270-272; symptoms peculiar to 
diseases of t. gland, 272, 273. 

Tetanus — "A-289," arsenical compound used as "cure" for t., 183. 

Tetranol — hypnotic, 210. 

Tonsils — extirpation followed by engorgement of lymph nodes in 
neck, 221. 

Treatment — allopathic t. dangerous without correct diagnosis, natural 
t. safe pending diagnosis, 1; natural t. may overcome tendency 
to disease, 27, 28. 

Trianol — hypnotic, 210. . 

Tubercular Bacillus — product of the disease, not its cause, and can- 
not be cured by serums, 198. 

Tuberculosis — tendency often indicated by scurf rim, 69, 70 ; caused 
by suppression of psora, 78; nature and origin of t., solved by 
psora spots in iris, 83; suppression of morbid discharges creates 
t., 135; caused by quinin poisoning, 160; cannot be cured by 
germ killers, 198; condition of lymphatic system in t., 221; why 
more dangerous with spleen disease, 225; history of a case, 230- 
234; relation to Addison's disease, 274. 

Tumor — nature and origin of malignant t. solved by spora spots in 
the eye, 83 ; disappearance of t., 238-245. 

Turanian — subrace of Atlantean, 29. 

Turpentine — sign in iris, 116, 206; description, 118. 

Twofold — functions of life, 281. 

Typhoid — rosary, 53; condition of lymphatic system in t., 221. 

Typhoid Rosary — see Lymphatic Eosary. 

Ulcers — result of suppression of psora, 78; of stomach and bowels 
caused by iodin, 172; of stomach from lead, a case, 178; lead 
elimination in healing crises, 180; of stomach, sign in iris, 217. 

Unity — of disease, 27. 
Uric Acid— see Acid. 

Vaccination — causes increase in chronic destructive diseases, 84; 

form of isopathic treatment, 89. 
Vaccine — see Vaccination; 84. 

Vegetarians — immune from fevers in tropical countries, 162. 
Venereal — suppression of v. infection, effects, 246. 
Vermin — exterminators, cause arsenical poisoning, 184. 



REFERENCE INDEX 327 

Wall Paper — as a source of arsenical poisoning, 181, 185. 

Wassermann — tests prove ' ' positive ' ' in cases of drug poisoning, 149. 

Waste — matter, see Morbid and Pathogen. 

Waters — treatment, see Hydrotherapy. 

Wheeler, Dr. C. L. — Editor New York Journal of Medicine, on un- 
reliability of allopathic diagnoses, 8. 

White — how white signs in iris are formed, 48; identified with con- 
structive principles in nature, 61; signs, the heralds of healing 
crises, 61, 62. 

Wieden — Hospital, Vienna, 143. 

Will — definition, 281. 

Woodruff, M. D., Maj. — quotations from, on blonde and brunette 
types, 33, 34, 35; his deductions wrong, 35. 

Wrist Drop — lead, as a cause of w. d., 178. 

Wylie, Dr. Harvey — on food adulteration, 128 ; extracted anilin dyes 
from canned goods, 199. 

Xanthins — how reduced to simple compounds for elimination, 69. 

Yeast — comparison of y. to bacteria, 90-94. 
Yellow Wash — use of, 136. 

Zinc — ointment in suppression of psoric eruptions and parasites, 76; 

results of use to "cure" skin eruptions, 78, 79; used to color 

canned vegetables, 129. 
Zones — seven z. of iris (fig. 7a), 58; location of organ areas in z. of 

iris, 58, 59. 



APPENDIX 

THE L1NDLAHR SYSTEM OF NATURAL 
THERAPEUTICS 

The Lindlahr Institutions were established, first, for the 
purpose of providing suitable environment and facilities 
for the care and treatment of patients desiring to be cured 
of acute and chronic ailments ; second, to train young men 
and women in the arts of natural healing, to turn them 
out as qualified nurses and physicians; third, to publish 
and distribute literature for the purpose of educating the 
public in the proper care of body and mind, thus promot- 
ing the ideas of natural living ; fourth, to establish local 
centers throughout the country to further the work of 
education. 

The Lindlahr Institutes are essentially educational in 
character and bear the stamp of liberality in thought, con- 
sistent with the highest ideals of the age. 

The work is divided into departments which are con- 
trolled by men and women of superior ability and breadth 
of vision. All departments are personally supervised by 
Dr. Lindlahr. 

THE SANITARIUMS 

In the Sanitariums facilities are provided for the thor- 
ough, conscientious treatment of those who are unable 
to undertake their treatment at home. There are many 
serious conditions which require supervision and treat- 
ment by experienced physicians and nurses. The Sani- 
tariums provide the proper facilities and ideal environ- 

517 



NATUKAL THERAPEUTICS 

ment for carrying out the natural regimen and for ad- 
ministering the various methods of natural treatment. 

Diagnosis. To begin with, a careful analysis is made of 
every patient's condition to determine the exact nature 
of his ailments and the degree of his vitality and recuper- 
ative powers. For this purpose advantage is taken of all 
the latest and best methods of diagnosis. These include : 

1. Physical Diagnosis. Each patient is subjected to a 
thorough physical examination. 

2. Laboratory Analysis. Examinations are made of the 
patients' blood, sputum and urine and, if necessary, also 
of stomach contents and of feces. Records are kept and 
comparisons made from time to time with previous anal- 
yses in order to determine the degree of improvement. 

3. Diagnosis from the Eye. The iris of the eye holds 
records of many abnormal changes in structure and func- 
tion as they occur in the body. Upon the patient's en- 
trance to our institution the records in the iris are care- 
fully noted, and signs of improvement are recorded dur- 
ing the course of treatment. 

4. Spinal Analysis, according to the various systems of 
manipulative treatment, offers a valuable addition to diag- 
nostic science. It reveals mechanical interference with the 
circulation of vital fluids and of nerve currents and points 
out the best methods of correction. 

5. Basic Diagnosis. In this we possess a valuable 
method for determining the general constitutional tend- 
encies toward health or disease and for prognosing the 
chances of recovery in any given case. The findings are 
based on the relative strength and activity of the three 
principal organ systems of the body, viz., the digestive, 
respiratory and reproductive systems. 

6. X-Ray Diagnosis. Wherever necessary the X-Ray is 
employed to show abnormalities of structure. 



APPENDIX ^ 

NATURAL THERAPEUTICS 

The essential element in curative treatment is a natural 
environment in which the patient is provided with proper 
food and subjected to the beneficial influences of the great 
natural curative forces found in sunlight, air and inti- 
mate contact with mother earth. But these regenerative 
influences are not sufficient to bring about marked im- 
provement or recovery in serious chronic cases. 
"Chronic" means that the system can no longer help it- 
self, that the cells and organs have become so encum- 
bered and weakened by pathogenic conditions that they 
cannot arouse themselves to acute curative effort. In 
such cases the purifying and tonic influences of the vari- 
ous methods of natural treatment are absolutely neces- 
sary to bring about the desired results. In many in- 
stances one kind or several kinds of treatment are not 
sufficient. The cure requires "the whole bill of fare" 
and then it is difficult and tedious enough to try to the 
uttermost both physician and patient. 

For these reasons Natural Therapeutics selects and com- 
bines everything that is good in dietetic treatment, hy- 
drotherapy, massage, osteopathy, chiropractic, naprap- 
athy, neurotherapy, Swedish movements, curative gym- 
nastics, breathing exercises, and in magnetic and mental 
therapeutics. 

Thus everything is done to overcome the primary man- 
ifestations of disease, viz., lowered vitality, abnormal 
composition of vital fluid, accumulation of pathogenic 
materials, mechanical lesions and destructive mental and 
emotional activities. In this way only can we secure a 
more copious inflow of the Life Force, which is healing 
Force, and through this perfect health, happiness and 
greater efficiency. 



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EXTENSION DEPARTMENT 

This department has been established for the benefit of 
those who are not sick enough to need institutional treat- 
ment or those who for some reason are not able to take 
advantage of it. These patients may receive advice and 
special instructions by mail or telegraph. Dr. Lindlahr 
takes entire charge of this work and daily dictates letters 
and telegrams to sufferers all over the country who are 
relying on his advice to make them whole again. Details 
regarding this department will be mailed on request. 

Transient Treatment Department. Both in Elmhurst 
and in Chicago a department is maintained for transient 
patients. Besides their treatments these patients receive 
instructions in diet, home treatment and natural living. 

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT 

Exceptional opportunities are offered to young men and 
women desiring a vocational training. 

The college department is maintained at the expense of 
the institution for the education of physicians, nurses and 
teachers., 

For this purpose a number of courses of instruction have 
been arranged to meet the ever growing demand. 

COLLEGE PREPARATORY COURSE 

This course prepares students for college and at the 
same time they are given exceptional opportunities for 
earning their way. 

THREE YEAR NURSES 9 TRAINING COURSE 

Our sanitariums are open to young women who desire 
training in nursing. This is a wonderful chance to acquire 
a liberal education and vocational training while at the 



APPENDIX 

same time earning fair wages and in many instances high 
wages on the commission plan. 

FOUR MONTHS* PRACTICAL TRAINING 
COURSE 

This course makes it possible for every young man and 
woman to secure a practical knowledge of the laws and 
principles underlying the science of eugenics and the arts 
of natural living and healing. This constitutes the best 
preparation for the responsibilities and duties of mar- 
riage and of parenthood. It is an ideal course for parents 
or for others upon whom depends the care of a family. 

FOUR YEAR PHYSICIANS 9 COURSE 

Young men and women about to enter college in prepa- 
ration for their life's work should carefully consider the 
new profession of Natural Therapeutics. This is the only 
college in the country offering a thorough course in all 
branches of drugless and bloodless therapy and natural 
healing. The minimum of time required for this course 
according to the provisions of the Medical Practice Act 
is forty months. 

RESIDENCE POSTGRADUATE COURSES 

To the graduates of other schools we offer finishing 
courses in all branches of Natural Therapeutics, ranging 
from a few weeks to four months. 

POSTGRADUATE EXTENSION COURSES 

For practicing physicians of all schools who are unable 
to take our Residence Postgraduate Course there has been 
instituted an Extension Course in which all the subjects 
of diagnosis and treatment are taught by correspondence. 
Many valuable books and charts are given free to students 



NATTJKAL THERAPEUTICS 

subscribing to this course. Without the payment of an 
additional tuition fee these students are allowed to at- 
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PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT 

This department is maintained for the purpose of 
spreading the New Gospel of Natural Living and Healing. 
Yearly thousands of tracts, booklets and other forms of 
literature are published and distributed to bring light to 
the ignorant and hope to the sufferer. Dr. Henry Lind- 
lahr is now completing six most valuable volumes whose 
contents will cover the entire field of Natural Thera- 
peutics. 

The first book written by Dr. Lindlahr was entitled 
" Nature Cure Philosophy and Practice." It was a monu- 
mental work which gave for the first time a correct and 
scientific exposition of Nature Cure philosophy and prac- 
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first publication has been thoroughly revised and en- 
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to treatment. The third volume of the series will be a 
revision of the Nature Cure Cook Book. Volume IV will 
be "Eugenics, or Man Building on the Physical, Mental and 
Moral Planes of Being ' \ based on the principles of Natural 
Therapeutics. Volume V will present the nature and treat- 
ment of special diseases from the allopathic viewpoint and 
according to the principles of Natural Therapeutics. Vol- 
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The importance of diet is recognized by all schools of 
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Why we favor a vegetarian diet. Psychology of 
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Foods. Medicinal Vegetables. Relishes. Salads. 
Croquettes and Roasts. Vegetables. Desserts. Cere- 
als. Bread. Legumes. Dairy Products. Eggs. 
Sandwiches. Beverages. On page 277 is given the 
recipe for the famous HEALTH BREAD, used at the 
Lindlahr Sanitarium and Health Resort. 

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